By Roy Kerr
utilizing a primitive fielding glove without webbing or pocket, he compiled the top fielding general of any outfielder (1,000+ video games) who accomplished his occupation sooner than 1900. At age forty six, 10 years after his final complete significant league season, Thompson performed 8 video games for the injury-plagued Detroit Tigers, successful one contest along with his bat and saving a number of others with magnificent catches within the outfield.
This entire biography strains Thompson’s existence and profession from his adolescence in rural Danville, Indiana, to his final days as a U.S. deputy marshal in Detroit, and clarifies his prestige of 1 of the best avid gamers in baseball’s lengthy and storied history.
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