Jim Morris: 'Anything is possible in this life. I’m living proof of that'

Morris was 35 years old when he left his job as a science teacher to play Major League Baseball – all because his pupils won a betBy Jonathan Drennan for the Guardian Sport Network
Twenty-one years ago, Jim Morris made a bet with his young baseball team that would change his life forever. Morris was 35 at the time and working as a high school science teacher in Texas. The baseball team he coached at the school had only won three games in three years but Morris promised them that, if they c