Bud Morse

Second baseman, Baseball Player

1904 – 1987

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Who was Bud Morse?

Newell Obediah "Bud" Morse, Sr. was an American baseball second baseman and attorney. He played college baseball for the University of Michigan and played Major League Baseball for the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics team that won the 1929 World Series and is considered one of the greatest baseball teams in history. He later practiced as an attorney in California and Nevada. In 1957, he was recognized by the Governor of Nevada for "exceptional acts of heroism" in disarming a gunman who had run amok in the Reno, Nevada veterans' hospital, killing two persons and injuring a third.

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Born
Sep 4, 1904
Berkeley
Profession
Lived in
  • Berkeley
Died
1987
Sparks

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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