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James "Jim" Samuel Morris, Jr. (born January 19, 1964) is an American former 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 466th 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 of the 1983 amateur draft (January Secondary) 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.
James Hollis Morris, known as Jim Morris (born May 3, 1954), is a businessman from Caddo Parish, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. His District 1 encompasses the northern portions of both Caddo and neighboring Bossier Parish.
In 2007, Morris became only the second member of his party to hold his legislative seat, having won a special election to succeed the Democrat Roy M. Hopkins of Oil City, who died in office. The previous Republican representative for District I is retired banker Bruce Lynn of Gilliam, who served from 1976 to 1988. Morris resides in Belcher, but his district office is in Oil City, north of Shreveport.
Morris is a native of Arkansas, where his father was a deputy sheriff and his mother worked in a factory. He graduated in 1972 from Smackover High School in Smackover in Union County near El Dorado, Arkansas. In 1976, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in professional education from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. For his entire working career, Morris has been involved in the petroleum and natural gas business.
Morrisound Recording is an audio recording facility in Temple Terrace, Florida, owned and operated by brothers Jim and Tom Morris. Since its opening in 1981, Morrisound has been responsible for the popularization of genres such as heavy metal and death metal, but of course caters to every genre of audio expression.
Notable albums recorded at Morrisound include works by bands such as Steve Morse, Sepultura, Savatage, Morbid Angel, Death, Control Denied, Napalm Death, Obituary, Incubus, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Iced Earth, Six Feet Under, End-Time Illusion, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Atheist, Kamelot, Seven Mary Three and Demons and Wizards.
Coordinates: 28°03′28″N 82°23′36″W / 28.05778°N 82.39333°W / 28.05778; -82.39333
Jim Morris is a former professional baseball player and subject of the 2002 film The Rookie.
Jim Morris may also refer to:
Jim Morris, born James Vincent Morris is an English playwright associated with social realism. He was born in 1953 in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
He was voted Most Promising Playwright of 1981 by The Financial Times and The Morning Star for his first stage play Blood On The Dole which was performed at The Liverpool Playhouse in 1981 where he was resident playwright. He also co-founded Liverpool Lunchtime Theatre (LLt) in 1982 with three other writers - Paul Goetzee, Bruce Birchall and Denis Wainwright.
His first stage play, Blood On The Dole was later made into a Television Film in 1994 and was broadcast on Channel 4. It was directed by Pip Broughton and produced by Alan Bleasdale as part of ‘Alan Bleasdale Presents’. Starring Stephen Walters and Suzanne Maddock; it told the story of two working class Merseyside school leavers and their struggles in facing a life of unemployment and social deprivation.
The Natural Law Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 2000 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.
Macleod is a musician. He has released an album entitled Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and performed a solo concert at EcoFair 2003 (organized by the Maharishi University of Management). He received 133 votes (0.32%), finishing seventh against Liberal incumbent Joe Volpe.
Darisse, also called Helene Darisse-Yildirim, is a teacher and video producer from the Niagara Falls area. She holds Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees (Canada NewsWire, 17 December 2000), and is a member of the Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition , and the Canadian Yoga Alliance.
Darisse was a perennial candidate for the Natural Law Party at both the federal and provincial levels.
Some DEATH footage at Morrisound Recording during HUMAN recording sessions in 1991. This is a piece of Death Metal history! Enjoy it!
Death Metal pioneers, Jim and Tom Morris talk to us about their start in the industry and the birth of the death metal scene in Tampa. Stay tuned for the full interview. For more info on Morrisound Recording, visit www.morrisound.com. Full interview here: https://youtu.be/Gq5Rc3xHk9Q
Jim and Tom Morris talk about creating Morrisound Recording, and how they became known as the pioneers of death metal in Tampa Bay.
Mixing Of Harmony Corruption In Morrisound
Early sessions of recording The Bleeding album at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, FL. Some drum tracking and some rhythm guitar tracking...
Very rare (and very boring) footage of the band that includes the voice recording of Dead Embryonic Cells (with different lyrics) and Infected Voice.
Interview with John Walker, Ian Buchanon and Carl Stokes in Tampa, Florida 1991. They talk about Morrisound recording studio. *Date:23/10/2011
James "Jim" Samuel Morris, Jr. (born January 19, 1964) is an American former 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 466th 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 of the 1983 amateur draft (January Secondary) 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.
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