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There are Hall of Famers and then there are inner sanctum Hall of Famers . . . Mr. Morgan is most assuredly in that inner sanctum of HOF'ers . . . easily the greatest 2nd baseman of the modern era and right there with Rogers Hornsby, Eddie Collins and Nap Lajoie from the early 1900's. Morgan also played 2nd base almost right to the end of his lengthy career, whereas others like Rod Carew, for example, were moved to keep their bat in line up but their body out of harms way in the field, but not Morgan, he held down 2nd base almost right to the end. Pretty absurd that 81 sports writers left him off their HOF ballots. RIP Little Joe.
BTW, it's been a tough year for losing such inner sanctum guys like Morgan, Whitey Ford, Gibby and Tom Terrific.
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