SECAUCUS, N.J. — It was the most magical night a pitcher has ever had, an extra-inning shutout to win the World Series, and Jack Morris wishes he could share it with you. If every person could experience one moment like that, he says, and reach a goal in extraordinary circumstances, think of the positive energy it could bring to the world.

Morris is 55 now, a part-time radio broadcaster for the Minnesota Twins with a silver goatee and the same steely eyes that stared defiantly at his manager before the 10th inning of Game 7 in 1991, refusing to yield to a reliever. But now, as he sits on a couch with his wife, Jennifer, after watching a replay at MLB Network studios, those eyes well up.

Morris had noticed the fans all night as he dueled with John Smoltz of the Atlanta Braves. He had taken it all in, empathizing with those people who were so much like him, a fellow Minnesotan who had rooted hard for the Vikings teams of the 1970s that never quite went all the way.