Morris is a highly respected baseball researcher, and is often interviewed or cited by major media outlets such as National Public Radio.
[2][3] He has written or co-authored nine books (as of 2014), including the major two-volume work A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations that Shaped Baseball in 2006, the first book to ever win both the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal and the Casey Award.
[citation needed] In addition to his interest in baseball, Morris was a keen and talented Scrabble player.
Each of Morris’ subsequent books reflects his meticulous research and his dedication to uncovering forgotten details from the early history of baseball.
In 2010, Morris was named one of the nine inaugural winners of the Society for American Baseball Research’s Henry Chadwick Award, an award established "to honor those researchers, historians, analysts, and statisticians whose work has most contributed to our understanding of the game and its history.