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Originally Posted by Carlton
Ed Morgan is OOTPs dream, a player who amassed a huge season in on eof the few years he played, thus he is over rated by the system.
His great year was 1930, the year of the Lively ball
He was a good hit, no field 1B who was forced into an OF role and made the Indians, only because of Tris Speaker's hasty departure (because of the gambling scandal between he and Cobb)
His downfall came after that year and the Indians did not want to give him a pay increase. What is unheard of now, but not back then, was his inclination to give up baseball and go into business, as he could make much more money. The final straw was Walter Johnson becoming manager and he did not like Morgan's lack of defensive awareness
BTW what happened to Jimmie Foxx?
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It's weird that in my game, Morgan doesn't have any stats listed under real life, so I originally thought he might be a negro league guy, or a fluke fictional player, but he had a Wikipedia entry. Your info is much better then the Wikipedia entry though. Thank you, it adds greatly to this and I love learning about the players!
I'll talk a bit about Jimmie Foxx in the offseason, but he did make his debut with the Phillies this season.