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	Hank Thompson (baseball player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thompson was a machine gunner with the 1695th Combat Engineers at the historic Battle of the Bulge.
		Sergeant Thompson was discharged on June 20, 1946, and immediately returned to the Monarchs, who were in the midst of capturing the league title.
		Thompson batted.375 in his last year with Kansas City, finishing third in the batting race and leading the league in steals with 20.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Thompson_(baseball_player) (761 words)

	Hank Aaron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934), baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is best known for setting the record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by Babe Ruth.
		In his first season (1954) he was moved from shortstop to outfielder, and despite an injury which caused him to miss part of the season, posted a batting average of.280 and hit thirteen home runs.
		Hank Aaron broke the record on April 8, with a home run in Atlanta off Los Angeles pitcher Al Downing.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/ha/hank_aaron.html (878 words)

	Hank Thompson Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Thompson was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 17, 1947, with the St. Louis Browns, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
		Hank Thompson's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Hank Thompson baseball statistics page.
		Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive player registry for Hank Thompson which includes his biographical data, year-by-year statistics, career totals, and miscellaneous items-of-interest.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=thompha02 (309 words)

	Third Man Theme: The Hank Thompson Story
		Hank was the first fl player on two major league teams: the St. Louis Browns (making him the first fl Brown) in 1947, and the New York Giants in ‘49.
		Both players were released on August 23, DeWitt announcing to the press that Thompson and Brown “had failed to reach major-league standards,” although they were far from the only Browns for who that claim could be made.
		Thompson eventually did make a point of name-checking some of his Browns teammates who went out of their way to make the two feel comfortable, including future actor John Berardino (who would later portray Jake Wells in the TV-movie of Satchel Paige’s life, “Don’t Look Back”).
	www.chinmusic.net /hank.html (2045 words)

	Hank Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hank Thompson was a baseball player in the 1940s and 1950s.
		Hank Thompson is a country music singer and songwriter.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Thompson (87 words)

	The Giants and the Color Barrier
		Anson was one of the most popular baseball players of the 1800's, and he was also quite a bigot.
		A fellow Giants player by the name of Fletcher intervened, but McCormick refused to leave the field after he was tossed from the game.
		Giants players Fletcher and Snodgrass (who would earn infamy later in the year) protested to the umpire, feeling that if the Smart Sets were able to bat against a pitcher with a clean ball, the Giants should have the same right.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/nlgiants.html (1988 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Six Bad Things - Charlie Huston - Paperback
		Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets.
		You may have known someone like Hank Thompson in school: cordial, accommodating, talented, prone to erratic behavior, and already well on his way either to the state house or the big house.
		It's been three years since Hank Thompson, in said debut and accompanied by Bud the cat, hightailed it out of New York with a $4 million swag, ownership of which remains in dispute.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=O9t1wsVnH9&isbn=0345464796&itm=1 (1119 words)

	Hank Thompson \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Thompson was the first fl player for both the Browns and the Giants, and when he batted against the Dodgers' Don Newcombe in 1949, it was the first time in ML history a fl batter faced a fl pitcher.
		Thompson, who was also the first fl to play for the St.
		Thompson is the first to do this since Terry Moore hit two for the Cardinals at Forbes Field on this same date in 1939.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Thompson_Hank.stm (1054 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Caught Stealing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Within a few days, Thompson is ambushed by a pair of Russian thugs who beat him so badly he has to have a kidney removed.
		Hank Thompson is a bartender on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
		His life has been a bit of a disappointment in that he was slated to become a major league baseball player until he broke his leg.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/034546477X (914 words)

	Ed Delahanty \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Delahanty is the only player to have four brothers precede him in the major leagues...
		The connection between Delahanty and the stranger on the bridge was finally made by John K. Bennett, manager for the Pullman Car Company, when he investigated the contents of a dress suitcase and fl leather bag sitting unclaimed in his Buffalo office.
		In 1894 Delahanty (.407), Sam Thompson (.407), and Billy Hamilton (.404), all reached the.400 mark as outfielders for the Phillies.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/delahantyed (1369 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - 2004 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player
		He is a great baseball player and has earned his mark in the history of baseball but, his time to reign as the premeir player in baseball is over.
		Nothing is an exact reflection of a players worth, that's the reason these statistics exist, they attempt to fill a void in Baseball that's existed ever since the beginning.
		McGwire doesn't play baseball anymore but I have bashed him for his Andro like steroid use and have said Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa's HR records are b.s.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=70001 (3874 words)

	Baseball Hall of Fame by Baseball Almanac
		The all time pinnacle for any player or person associated with our national pastime is enshrinement into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
		Hank Greenberg said at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, "When you're playing, awards don't seem like much.
		is pleased to present comprehensive checklists, quotations from and about members, links to playing statistics, ballots, and other interesting data related to hall of fame baseball players.
	baseball-almanac.com /hofmenu.shtml (268 words)

	sports quotes - Awesome Sports Quotes Here
		You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.
		Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.
		Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
	www.motivational-depot.com /quotes/sports/sports-quotes.htm (429 words)

	Powell's Books - Caught Stealing by Charles Huston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty.
		But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.
		Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy’s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=93-0345478290-0 (602 words)

	All-Baseball.com, part of MVN: June 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The top pick in the baseball draft was suspended indefinitely on Monday, a day after he was arrested at a bar in Peoria, Ariz. for investigation of trespass, disorderly conduct and assault.
		While most of the characteristics of a team’s uniform are the same from player to player, there are two features that are unique to each player: his number and his name.
		He became a baseball fan during the 2002 season, when Barry Bonds was leading the Giants to an ultimately heartbreaking appearance in the World Series, their first since 1989.
	www.all-baseball.com /archives/2004_06.html (19914 words)

	NetShrine Discussion Forum - Baseball Murderers
		I was reviewing a book called "Baseball's Most Wanted" and in it it stated that pitcher Charles "Pacer" Smith was the only major league player to be executed for murder.
		Baseball has had its share of player/murderers, the most famos being Hank Thompson and Cesar Cedeno.
		Baseball's 1st and only execution took place on 11/28/1895 when Pacer Smith was hanged in Decatur, IL.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=8164 (1065 words)

	BTF's Baseball Primer Blog
		If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don’t know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn’t be in the decision-making process to begin with.
		The wife of Houston Astros player Craig Biggio wasn’t injured when she was slapped Sunday night at Sox Park—but the reputation of Chicago baseball fans got a fl eye in Texas.
		Patty Biggio was sitting in a section that included player wives when a fan hit her “with an open hand’’ in the back of the head as the game ended, said a White Sox spokesman.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/primer/discussion/26765 (4212 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Six Bad Things : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hank's ready to buy some peace, until threats against his family force him to make a desperate dash for California.
		But Hank demonstrates an almost-supernatural knack for survival, and one can't help but root for him even as he brings mayhem into the lives of family and friends.
		Hank's 1 out of 4, struggling with the smart, sharp, and careful stuff, knowing that if he can just figure those three out, the fourth one will stop hurting and bleeding so much.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345464796?v=glance (1592 words)

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		Johnson's father, Henry M. Johnson Sr., was a good baseball player who moved to Siluria to work at the local cotton mill, which sponsored the baseball team.
		Hank would while away an afternoon while his father played golf, but it was at Woodward where he received his first formal golfing instruction.
		Hank's highest profile student in recent years has been Birmingham's own PGA Tour player Steve Lowery, who saw a dramatic resurgence in his golf game this past season, culminating in his win at the Southwestern Farm Bureau Classic in Madison, Miss.
	www.golfsouthmagazine.com /news_details.asp?ID=35 (2304 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Baseball: An Illustrated History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the case of "Baseball," the unrelenting focus is on New York City, Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, and to be fair, there is no way you could discuss the subject of baseball without devoting a great deal of time to these subjects.
		In any case, "Baseball" is very entertaining, and that is what largely accounts for my 4-star rating I would only caution those who don't know their baseball history that this documentary omits a great deal of what is a very good story.
		The documentary focuses in on the Baseball's rich history that is emphasized by the statistics of individuals that are used as a yardstick to measure the performances of upcoming and future players.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679404597?v=glance (3532 words)

	Hank Thompson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
		A by the stat's value indicates the player** had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year.
		In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total.
		The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.
	www.baseball-reference.com /t/thompha02.shtml (483 words)

	O'Neil, John Jordan 'Buck' - Negro League Baseball Player
		Born: 1911 in Carabelle, FL The players call him Skip, for Buck O'Neil is the captain of the ship that sent more Negro League veterans ashore to the white Majors than any man in baseball history.
		He was one of the best ball players I have ever seen." O'Neil won batting titles in 1940 and 1946, blasting out averages of.345 and.350, respectively.
		Today, Buck O'Neil chairs the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Board of the Directors, and serves on the Veterans' Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
	www.nlbpa.com /o_neil__john_jordan_-_buck.html (511 words)

	2001 Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball AL Player List
		All of the players on this list are eligible for all of 2001 in Scoresheet American League drafts that follow our draft by mail rules.
		Any player that is on our 2001 NL list will not be eligible for you to draft for the entire 2001 season.
		You are allowed to draft such a player only after he is under contract to (or drafted by) an AL team or an AL owned minor league team.
	www.scoresheet.com /archive/AL2001.html (461 words)

	lection: caught stealing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before long, rival gangs are combing downtown looking for Hank and something to do with the neighbor's cat, and he is pitched into toubles that make his foregoing life look rosy.
		Hank Thompson is a Giants fan (even his name is a Giants allusion).
		Like a video-game hero, Hank Thompson bounces around only slightly scathed while the streets of New York run with blood and the bystanders either ignore the action or (if they're cops) seem uninterested in stopping it.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/lection/041226.html (414 words)

	Jackie Robinson \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In the 1987 survey "Player's Choice," Robinson was called the greatest of his era at second base, where he set a club record for fielding average and teamed with Pee Wee Reese as one of the game's great double-play combinations, and was also named fifth best at third.
		But the statistical records of the player Dodger general manager Branch Rickey considered the "most competitive" man he'd known since Ty Cobb only hint at his achievements.
		June 1, 1950: Marty Marion, Sid Gordon, and Hank Thompson hit grand slams for the Cards (5—2 over Brooklyn), the Braves (14—2 over the Pirates), and the Giants (8—7 in the first of two at Cincinnati) respectively.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Robinson_Jackie.stm (4652 words)

	African American Registry for Wednesday October 26th 2005
		The first successful organized Negro League in baseball* was established on this date in 1920.
		Hank Thompson* was born on this date in 1925.
		On this date in 1934, Hank* Aaron was born.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/12/month.php (2313 words)

	Sports Artifacts - Vintage baseball letters
		The letter regarding Mexican League players and is signed by Major League Baseball's Secretary-Treasurer Walter Mulbry.
		The other 2 letters that are included are both typewritten copies of letters to Happy Chandler regarding the issues with Mexican League players.
		to National Association President Philip Piton informing him about status of baseball players Elroy Face and Ron Kline who were both stars with Pittsburgh during the 1950's and 60's and who both pitched their final year of pro ball with Hawaii in 1970.
	www.sportsartifacts.com /documents.html (522 words)

	2002 Scoresheet Fantasy Baseball AL Player List
		The new 2003 AL and 2003 NL player lists will be created and uploaded to the web in mid-January, 2003.
		All of the players on this list are eligible for all of 2002 in Scoresheet American League drafts that follow our draft by mail rules.
		Any player that is on our 2002 NL list will not be eligible for you to draft for the entire 2002 season.
	www.scoresheet.com /archive/AL2002.html (540 words)

	Baseball History
		Most baseball bloggers seem to be concerned with the here and now as opposed to the rich past of the game.
		Ritter was quite the renaissance man. He wrote a very popular money and banking textbook as well as numerous works on baseball.
		In his book on the Hall of Fame, Bill James listed criteria to consider a player worthy, including "Was he the best player in baseball at his position?" This chart is an attempt to help answer that question, as well as showing duration.
	baseballhistory.blogspot.com (1717 words)

	Diamond Daily: WV JPTSports
		SUNDAY NIGHT BASEBALL x2 GAME BONUS: Any player that is on your roster for an ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Game will accumulate double statistics in each scoring category.
		MAXIMUM GAMES ALLOWED: In order to compensate for games a player you selected did not play (or if you simply forgot to select a player for a gameday), there is a maximum number of games allowed for the game term.
		The maximum number of games played allowed for any game term is the number of days minus three.
	games.espn.go.com /diamond/entry?entryID=963 (239 words)

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