Joe Morgan, a native of Bonham, Texas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, is generally regarded as baseball's greatest second basemen in the post-World War II era. Originally Colt-.45 then Astro, Houston traded him to Cincinnati after the 1971 season is perhaps Houston's most ill-fated (and bone-headed) trades. Morgan went on to win two Most Valuable Player Awards with the Big Red Machine.

Also this episode - three coaches fired already in the NCAA FBS season, the Astros are on life support, the Padres clinch, festivals are faring no better than the Astros

Episodes Mentioned this Week

• 133 - We Weren't Rained Out, We Were Rained In w/ Roger Metzger
• 144 - Bill Virdon's Baseball Life w/ David Jerome & Shirley Virdon
• 195 - Looking Back at Houston's 1963 All-Rookie Lineup
• 232 - It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over: The 1973 New York Mets w/ Len Ferman, The Sports Time TravelerTM
• 244 - Power Outage! The 1979 Houston Astros
• 258 - "I Was a Kid Too Back Then" w/ Rick Wise

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