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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 ...
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
World War II. 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 ...
Wildcats baseball hit bottom at the turn of the 21st century, with only one winning season from 1997 through 2004, and five straight last-place finishes in the SEC East from 2001 through 2005. In 2003, after Madison's retirement, Kentucky hired Florida assistant John Cohen as head coach.
Career highlights and awards. 3× All-Star ( 1977, 1978, 1982) Jason Dolph Thompson (born July 6, 1954) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers, California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Montreal Expos from 1976 to 1986. He was a three-time MLB All-Star .
The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930. The Stars were an independent ball club in 1933, a member of the Negro National League from 1934 until the League's collapse following the 1948 ...
William Penn Thompson (January 14, 1874 – May 12, 1960) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1900s. A native of Louisa County, Virginia , Thompson began his baseball career playing for the Concord, New Hampshire YMCA team in 1891 and went on to play for the Cuban Giants in 1900 and later the Philadelphia Giants . [1]