Samuel Morris

Samuel Morris

• Bats Unknown, Throws Right

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Biographical Information

Sammy Morris was a full-blooded Nez Percé Native American, who played minor league ball along the coast of the western USA during the early 20th Century.

He earned $200 a month during the summer of 1903 pitching for the Portland Browns and played in St Louis in exhibition games in connection with the 1904 Olympics.

Sources

• Harold Seymour: Baseball: The People's Game, 1990 ISBN 0198020961 [1]
• The Morning Oregonian (Portland, OR), August 5, 1903, p. 11. [2]