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***NEWS*** Joe Morgan on Board with EBID!!! Like they said, EBID keeps the PRs coming:biz.yahoo.com Wednesday April 21, 12:44 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Hall of Famer Joins AcuBid.com Advisory Board CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--AcuBid.com is pleased to announce that Hall of Famer Joe Morgan has joined our advisory board. Morgan played professional baseball for 22 years and occupies a prominent position on the national stage in sports as professional athlete, broadcaster, author, journalist, businessman and philanthropist. Morgan was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1990, his first year of eligibility. In a 1997 vote, the Baseball Writers Associations of America recognized Morgan as one of the two greatest second basemen in history. Morgan is currently a familiar voice on weekly baseball broadcasts for ESPN and the All Star Game, as well as the World Series and League Championship Series for NBC Sports. Morgan won an Emmy in 1998 for sports broadcasting and was called the best analyst in baseball by the Wall Street Journal. In the past two years, Morgan has participated on nationally televised panel discussions with President Clinton and other leaders to discuss diversity, race and sports. ''There may not be anyone alive who knows more about baseball than Joe Morgan,'' wrote Bob Costas. Morgan has written extensively about baseball and was the first broadcaster to write a weekly column on the Internet about baseball. Morgan is the founder of J.L. Morgan Enterprises Inc., which has joint venture relationships with Fortune 500 companies, including Coors and Wendy's. Morgan is also the founder of Joe Morgan Youth Foundation which was formed in 1982 ''to offer a strong and dependable helping hand to prepare youth for a brighter tomorrow.'' The foundation has made numerous grants to youth-oriented organizations throughout the country. The foundation's overhead, salaries and administrative expenses are paid personally by Joe Morgan enabling all foundation contributions to reach intended youth benefactors. The foundation will also host its 15th Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament this year to raise funds for its benefactors. AcuBid.com is extremely pleased and honored to have Morgan join our board. ''His presence will heighten our visibility as a company and add dramatically to our image,'' said advisory board chairman Kurt Bevacqua. AcuBid.com Inc. is a newly established, San Diego-based, live Internet Auction House, specializing in the sale of high end collectibles. AcuBid's business objective is to develop a premier Web site for high end Internet collectible trading. The company will maintain an inventory of rare and hard to find items which it will auction off to the public. In addition, the company intends to act as a broker to provide a venue for sellers and dealers to display their collectibles to potential purchasers throughout the world via the Internet. Contact: AcuBid.com Inc. Norman Schwartz, 760/804-0023