# Vern Morgan
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{{Short description|American baseball player (1928–1975)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Vern Morgan
|position=[Third baseman](/source/Third_baseman)
|image=Vern Morgan 1955.jpg
|caption=
|bats=Left
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1928|8|8}}
|birth_place=[Emporia, Virginia](/source/Emporia%2C_Virginia), U.S.
|death_date={{Death date and age|1975|11|8|1928|8|8}}
|death_place=[Minneapolis, Minnesota](/source/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota), U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=August 10
|debutyear=1954
|debutteam=Chicago Cubs
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=May 1
|finalyear=1955
|finalteam=Chicago Cubs
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[Batting average](/source/Batting_average_(baseball))
|stat1value=.225
|stat2label=[Home runs](/source/Home_runs)
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=[Runs batted in](/source/Runs_batted_in)
|stat3value=3
|teams=
'''As player'''
*[Chicago Cubs](/source/Chicago_Cubs) (1954–1955)
'''As coach'''
*[Minnesota Twins](/source/Minnesota_Twins) (1969–1975)
}}
'''Vernon Thomas Morgan''' (August 8, 1928 – November 8, 1975) was an American [third baseman](/source/third_baseman) and [coach](/source/coach_(baseball)) in [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball), and a manager and longtime player (1948–64) at the [minor league level](/source/minor_league_baseball). A native of [Emporia, Virginia](/source/Emporia%2C_Virginia), who attended the [University of Richmond](/source/University_of_Richmond), Morgan threw right-handed, batted left-handed, stood {{height|ft=6|in=1}} (185 cm) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
Morgan's Major League playing career consisted of 31 games and 71 [at bats](/source/at_bats) for the [1954](/source/1954_in_baseball)–[1955](/source/1955_in_baseball) [Chicago Cubs](/source/Chicago_Cubs). Morgan collected 16 [hits](/source/hit_(baseball)), including two [doubles](/source/double_(baseball)), and [drove in](/source/runs_batted_in) three runs, [batting](/source/batting_average_(baseball)) .225. In 1956, he was acquired by the [Washington Senators](/source/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)) organization, and he would spend the rest of his baseball career in the employ of the franchise (which became the [Minnesota Twins](/source/Minnesota_Twins) in 1961). Morgan played for the Senators' Double-A [farm club](/source/farm_system), the [Chattanooga Lookouts](/source/Chattanooga_Lookouts) of the [Southern Association](/source/Southern_Association), from 1956 through mid-1960. As a 28-year-old veteran, Morgan had his best minor-league season for the 1957 Lookouts, batting .332 with 14 [home runs](/source/home_runs) and 92 RBI and making the SA all-star team as an [outfielder](/source/outfielder).
Morgan would play in the minor leagues for 15 seasons and bat .301 in 5,273 [at bats](/source/at_bats),[[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=morgan001ver Baseball Reference]] but he never made Washington's Major League roster and in 1961 he became a manager in the newly relocated Twins' farm system. Morgan managed for eight seasons in the [Alabama–Florida League](/source/Alabama%E2%80%93Florida_League), [Northern League](/source/Northern_League_(baseball%2C_1902%E2%80%9371)) and [Carolina League](/source/Carolina_League) — compiling a won/loss mark of 488–540 (.475) — until he was appointed to the Minnesota MLB coaching staff for 1969. He served as the Twins' first base coach for almost seven seasons, until he was forced to the sidelines by [kidney disease](/source/kidney_disease) in September 1975. Morgan received a [kidney transplant](/source/Kidney_transplantation) during the autumn of 1975, but his body rejected it and he died in [Minneapolis](/source/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota) on November 8 at the age of 47.[[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YmA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7p0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6543,1421966&dq=vern+morgan+died&hl=en Twins Coach Morgan dies]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
* Marcin, Joe, ed., ''The Official 1970 Baseball Register.'' St. Louis: [The Sporting News](/source/The_Sporting_News), 1970.
==External links==
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Category:People from Emporia, Virginia
Category:Richmond Spiders baseball players
Category:Selma Cloverleafs players
Category:Springfield Cubs players
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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