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Originally Posted by Jiggs McGee
So when will the famous blast come and who will it be against? The Foresters open the season with 3 games at home against the Chicago Cougars so there is a good chance number 600 will come that weekend. Not sure he will make the Cougars roster out of camp but if he does perhaps it might be a good bet to wager that Morris will hit number 600 off of veteran pitcher Hap Goodwin.
Morris has victimized Goodwin for 6 long balls previously in his career, the most he has hit against any current Cougar. Morris spent the vast majority of his career in the Federal Association and Goodwin was a long-time Pittsburgh Miner before being released last season and playing in the minors last year in the Cougars organization so Goodwin has never pitched for the Cougars, let alone faced Morris as a Cougar and all 6 homers came while Goodwin was with Pittsburgh.
Perhaps a better bet is Dick Luedtke, who has given up 4 Morris homers in the 21 at bats he had against him. Luedtke pitched a couple of seasons for the New York Gothams so has seen Morris more than most other Cougars and will quite likely start one of the 3 games against the Foresters on the opening weekend.
The only other current Cougars that Morris homered off are Tommy Wilcox, which he did twice in 10 at bats last season and Elmer Wood, who faced Morris twice and surrendered one homerun. The Cougar with the most success against Morris, at least in preventing homers, was Len Moore. Moore, who also spent time in the Federal Association with Morris, has not surrendered a homerun in 23 at bats. However, Morris is hitting .435 off of Moore.
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I'm about 100% positive it won't be Goodwin as I'm pretty certain I just sent him down to AAA in my export tonight. I'd wager big money on it coming game two of the season off Tommy Wilcox. The ideal situation is Morris hits one 600 feet of him in the first inning off him and then he wakes up and dominates the rest of the season lol