The Oldest Rookie On Opening Day of the baseball season, Liane talks with Jim Morris, a Texas high school baseball coach whose kids made a deal with him in the spring of 1999: they'd pursue their ...

THE OLDEST ROOKIE BIG-LEAGUE DREAMS FROM A SMALL-TOWN GUY. By Jim Morris and Joel Engel. Little, Brown, $22.95, 276 pages. Reviewed by MARC TOPKIN. Jim Morris made for a good story.

When doctors removed 85 percent of the deltoid muscle in Jim Morris’ throwing shoulder, it had already been a few years since the once-promising pitching prospect accepted that his major league ...

Jim Morris, the teacher-turned ... Morris was the oldest rookie pitcher since Diomedes Olivo threw at 41 in 1960 for Pittsburgh. Morris was drafted by Milwaukee in 1983, but his career was hurt by ...

A nearly packed auditorium at Victoria College watched Dennis Quaid portray the 35-year-old high school baseball coach turned major leaguer in a trailer to the Disney movie, "The Rookie," on ...

Instead, years later, Morris found himself as the oldest baseball rookie in about 40 years, relief pitching for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The movie plays up the moment when Morris gets the good news.

My wife, Nancy, cries every time she watches “The Rookie.” For those unaware, the Disney movie is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who, at the age of 35, finds lighting in his left arm ...

Seeing how the movie was based on his life story, of course there was a part to play for Jim Morris in "The Rookie." As an umpire, of all things. "I didn't even recognize myself," the teacher ...

Jim Morris's total MLB earnings. During his first and only full year in the MLB, Morris earned the league minimum salary of $200,000. In 2000, he signed a minor-league contract with the Los ...

In September of 1999 Jim Morris took the mound for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to enter history as a 35-year old rookie. He was a lefty pitcher with a 98 MPH fastball, and now Disney has turned his ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Jim "The Rookie Morris was guest speaker at Tuesday's Reach Ministries Dream Maker Business Luncheon at The Ortiz Center on Tuesday. His life story as a baseball pitcher ...