Now, there are no box scores to read and no baseball games to watch on television. Morgan said he never watched a lot of games on television, but he tuned in when an ace was on the mound.
"I pick out the games with the pitchers I like to watch, like the Washington Nationals," he said. "I like to watch (Max) Scherzer pitch. He's got some nasty stuff. I like to watch a pitcher like that throw to hitters. He can make them look so bad at times. I enjoy that."
Morgan can relate to that. In his eight seasons in the big leagues, he was known for his glove more than his bat, having a career average of .233.
"All of them made me look bad most of the time," Morgan said of the major league pitchers in his playing days. "I know I got one base hit off (Spahn) when I was in Brooklyn. He threw me a dinky curveball and I just kind of served it to right field. I got on first base and the umpire says, 'Bobby, that's the way you've got to hit that guy.'"
Morgan played on the Brooklyn Dodgers' World Series teams in 1952 and 1953. He preserved Carl Erskine's no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs in the 1952 season with two brilliant fielding plays at third base.
"I made two super plays on swinging bunts where they just dribbled down the line and I fielded them one-handed and threw to Gil Hodges at first," he said.
To this day, Erskine thanks Morgan for saving the no-hitter whenever they talk.
The world is different now and everyone is longing for happier times. For most of us, that was just a few weeks ago. For Morgan, it was when he suited up and ran onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
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