Good morning, Athletics Nation!
Since our last Elephant Rumblings on Friday, the baseball world lost two more Hall of Famers.
Most recently, on Sunday night, legendary second baseman Joe Morgan died at age 77, at his home in Danville, reports Susan Slusser of the S.F. Chronicle. Slusser notes a nerve condition as the official cause of death. I’m going to prepare a separate post about Morgan, who has strong A’s connections.
In this post, let’s double back to the end of last week. On Thursday, longtime New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford died at age 91, the team announced.