Free Press sports writer Ryan Ford takes a look at former Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Morris' MLB career. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press
Jack Morris made peace with it long before he got the phone call. He had no choice, really, whether the Hall of Fame was going to induct him.
So … he forgot. Or pretended to.
And he used each year he came up short in the Hall of Fame vote as a reason to look back: on all the things that had gone right; on the life baseball had given him; on the ways in which rejection can make a person think about change.