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James "Jimmy" Samuel Morris, JR (born January 19, 1964) is a retired American professional baseball player known for his brief Major League Baseball (MLB) career.
He spent most of his childhood moving to different cities. He began playing baseball at the age of three. His father became a recruiter for the United States Navy and his family settled in Texas. He attended Brownwood High School, but as Brownwood did not yet have a baseball program, he played football for the Lions from 1979-82 and won the state championship as a wingback, punter and kicker with Gordon Wood as a head coach. Still, he never gave up on his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player.
Morris was originally selected 465th overall in the January 1982 amateur baseball draft by the New York Yankees but did not sign. He would then later be selected fourth overall in the January 1983 amateur baseball draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and signed with the organization. He suffered several arm injuries in the minor leagues, and was released during the 1987 season, never having progressed past the single-A minor leagues. He signed with the Chicago White Sox organization for 1989, but was again unable to rise past the single-A leagues
Actors: Ryan Vance (director), Jim Morris (actor), Jacob Cox (editor), Sylvia Vale (editor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary, Short,Actors: Seth Gandrud (actor), Devin Berko (producer), Devin Berko (producer), Devin Berko (editor), Colleen Hartnett (actress), Bill Wetherill (producer), Bill Wetherill (writer), Bill Wetherill (director), Raymond Scott (actor), Jane Fendelman (actress), Shari K. Green (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: John Holmes (actor), Suzanne Fields (actress), Sandy Dempsey (actress), Richard Smedley (actor), Tricia Opal (actress), William Kirschner (actor), Billy Lane (actor),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Maurice Wright (editor), James Blaine (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Eddy Waller (actor), Anne Gwynne (actress), Ben Pivar (producer), Ben Pivar (writer), Christy Cabanne (director), Richard Arlen (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Karl Hackett (actor), Reed Hadley (actor),
Plot: Clark Manning ('Richard Arlen' (qv)), a fur trapper, is falsely accused of stealing pelts from other trapper's traps and sets out, with the aid of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Constanble 'Bones" Blair, to clear his name and find the true thief. He is not helped by Myrna Montgomery ('Kay Sutton (I)' (qv)) who he thinks is his sweetheart and the sister of his friend, Ross Montgomery ('Reed Hadley' (qv),) but is actually the wife of Montgomery and is part of the frame-up of Manning.
Keywords: 1900s, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, brother-sister-relationship, canada, canadian, cigarette-smoking, city-in-title, deceitActors: Joseph P. Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), Barney Furey (actor), Tom Tyler (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), Stanley Taylor (actor), Robert De Lacey (director), Al Kaufman (actor), Harry O'Connor (actor), F.A.E. Pine (writer), Dorothy Dunbar (actress), George Washington Yates Jr. (writer),
Genres: Western,Actors: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (actor), Fred Church (actor), Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (director), Vedah Bertram (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,He was three years out of college,
A damned good engineer.
Worked hard all day, then he partied away.
Things were happy on the old frontier.
Had a plan for taking life easy,
Avoiding the kids and a wife.
He drove all the women crazy.
These were the three best years of his life.
Then the corporate boys they called him
And said we’ve got a job to do.
Got this problem up in North Dakota
And we need a man just like you.
But the sound of the plains and the freezing rain
Hit him like a fatal disease.
Put a beer to his mouth, took 95-South
And he headed for the Keys.
CHORUS:
And it’s just the sweetest life he’s ever tasted,
A little laid back and key wasted.
He’s got his toes in the sand, he’s a tropical man
He’s happy as hell and it shows.
He’s just living in a drunken stupor,
Making some money on that old square grouper.
Never had any doubt and if it doesn’t work out,
Well, that’s just the way it goes.
Got a job making margaritas
In a little bar by the pier,
Till he finally made some connections
With some big-time buccaneers.
Now he spends some time in Cartagena
Making plans for the haul.
Might be dealing with bums, might be dangerous to some
But the old boy is having a ball.
REPEAT CHORUS
Now his friends all worry about him;
They think he’s throwing his future away.
It’s kind of hard being upwardly mobile
When you’re laying in the sun all day.
So they call him up to convince him
And tell him what it’s all about.
But on the phone he can never stop laughing,
He’s got the whole damned thing figured out.
REPEAT CHORUS