He worked as an analyst alongside Jon Miller for 21 years on the network's Sunday night telecasts.
Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman and sparkplug of the Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine who went on to spend more than two decades as a baseball broadcaster, has died. He was 77.
Most of all, he completed Cincinnati's two-time World Series championship team, driving a club featuring the likes of Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez to back-to-back titles. "He was just a good major league player when it didn't mean anything," former Reds and Tigers skipper Sparky Anderson once said."But when it meant something, he was a Hall of Famer."
Morgan began his sportscasting career in 1985 with the Reds, then spent nine seasons with the San Francisco Giants and one with the Oakland Athletics' broadcasting teams.Sunday Night BaseballHealth issues had slowed down Morgan in recent years. Knee surgery forced him to use a cane when he went onto the field at Great American Ball Park before the 2015 All-Star Game and he later needed a bone marrow transplant for an illness.
The Reds had already built a formidable team, but they came up short in 1970, losing to Baltimore in the World Series. Cincinnati made a shocking trade for Morgan after the 1971 season, giving up slugger Lee May and All-Star second baseman Tommy Helms in an eight-player swap."Joe fit in with the rest of us like the missing link in the puzzle," Rose once said.
Morgan scored a major league-leading 122 runs in his first season with the Reds and they reached the 1972 World Series, where they lost in seven games to Oakland. He spent the 1980 season with Houston, helping the Astros to a NL West title. He played two seasons with San Francisco, and later was reunited with Rose and Perez in Philadelphia.
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