Friday, September 24, 2010
Article from The Optimist
Jim Morris has always believed in others and second chances. A minor league baseball pitcher turned high school baseball coach and science teacher, Morris knows a thing or two about the curveballs life tends to throw our way at the most inopportune times.
Morris dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player since he first set foot on a baseball diamond at the age of three. A left-handed pitcher, Morris was drafted fourth overall by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1983 amateur baseball draft. Following a short stint in the minor league system, he suffered several arm injuries that hindered his progression. Six surgeries on his left shoulder later, the Brewers released Morris in 1987, ending his chance at achieving his dream.
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