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Nyjer Jamid Morgan (born July 2, 1980) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Cleveland Indians, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Morgan has mainly played center field during his MLB career. In his youth Morgan played ice hockey, reaching the Major Junior level with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League in 1999–2000. Following that season, Morgan turned his focus exclusively to baseball and was drafted by the Pirates in the 33rd round of the 2002 MLB Draft. ==Early life== Morgan was born in San Francisco. When he was seven years old, he became interested in playing ice hockey after watching the ice hockey tournament at the 1988 Winter Olympics on television. When Morgan was 16, after playing in numerous tournaments across the United States and Canada, he was recruited by the Vernon Vipers of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). Although Morgan did not make the Vipers' team after participating in its training camp, he played two games with the team during the 1996–97 season as an affiliate player in which he recorded ten penalty minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vipers.bc.ca/leagues/custom_page.cfm?clientid=5225&leagueid=19573&pageid=11761&theMonth=4&theYear=2012 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://members.shaw.ca/vernonfranchise/vernon/vipers/1996-97.html )〕 He spent the remainder of the 1996–97 season with the North Okanagan Knights of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. The following season, he played for the Nelson Leafs of the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League. During the 1998–99 season, Morgan again played for a new team, this time for the Delta Ice Hawks of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League. The following season, Morgan made the transition from the junior "B" Ice Hawks to the major junior Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). In seven games with the Pats during the 1999–2000 WHL season, Morgan score two goals and recorded twenty penalty minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=67848 )〕 Both of his goals were scored in his first career WHL game, after which he was named the first star of the game. Following his seven games with the Pats, Morgan was released and joined the Prince George Spruce Kings of the BCHL for three games in which he scored one assist and fifteen penalty minutes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nyjer Morgan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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