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Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1892) Will McLain Thompson (August 30, 1870 – June 9, 1962) was an American professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues for the 1892 Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. He played college ball at the University of Pennsylvania. He also played in the New York State League in 1889, the ...
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Dotted line represents the approximate track of Thomson's game-winning line drive home run. In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL ...
Billy Sunday. William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 [1] – November 6, 1935) was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder. He played for eight seasons in the National League and before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century. Born into poverty near Ames, Iowa ...
In the same ballpark where he got his first career start and led Vanderbilt to the SEC tournament final a year ago, he got the win with six innings of one-run ball Thursday to qualify the ...
Will Thompson (baseball) (1870–1962), American baseball player; Other. William Thompson (banker), Governor of the Bank of England from 1725 to 1727; William Thompson (Methodist) (1733–1799), first President of the Methodist Conference after Wesley's death
Henry Curtis Thompson (December 8, 1925 – September 30, 1969) was an American player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played primarily as a third baseman. A left-handed batter, he played with the Dallas Green Monarchs (1941), Kansas City Monarchs (1943, 1946–47, 1948), St. Louis Browns (1947) and New York Giants (1949–56).
The Longhorn baseball team gives the Hook 'em Horns sign after a game. The Longhorn baseball program has been remarkably stable over the last century. Over a 105-year period (1911–2016), it had only four full-time coaches—Billy Disch (1911–1939), Bibb Falk (1940–1967), Cliff Gustafson (1968–1996), and Augie Garrido (1997–2016).
Jay Bradley Johnson (born April 20, 1977) is an American baseball coach and former second baseman, who is the current head baseball coach of the LSU Tigers.He played college baseball at Shasta from 1997 to 1998 before transferring to Point Loma Nazarene.