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In those days, running a minor league baseball operation was a one-man job. Bill Thompson, [5] who had formerly teamed with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons announcing San Francisco Giants radio broadcasts from 1965 to 1975, [6] [7] was hired as general manager in 1978 and was there when the Greater Fresno Youth Foundation sold the team to Modesto ...
Bill Thompson: 1965–1973; Bill Rigney: 1969; Al Michaels: 1974–1976; Art Eckman: 1974–1975; ... List of current Major League Baseball announcers; References
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]
National Football League. Charles Lloyd Thompson (June 10, 1921 – March 6, 2005) was an American sportscaster best known for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball 's Baltimore Orioles and the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Colts. He was well-recognized for his resonant voice, crisply descriptive style of play-by-play, and ...
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 ...
Charlie Manuel, managed from 2005–2013, and won the 2008 World Series. Ryne Sandberg managed the Phillies from 2013 to 2015. Pete Mackanin was the Phillies manager from 2015 to 2017. Joe Girardi was the manager of the Phillies from 2020 to 2022. Rob Thomson has managed the Phillies since 2022.
Jim Palmer or Mike Bordick. 2018. Jim Palmer or Mike Bordick or Ben McDonald (fill-in) 2019. Jim Palmer or Ben McDonald or Mike Bordick or Brian Roberts (fill-in) Sara Perlman (Until July 21); None (July 22 onwards) Tom Davis or Rob Long (weekends) 2020 [12] Scott Garceau, Kevin Brown or Geoff Arnold.
Bill Mazeroski 's 1960 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series on October 13, 1960, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Leading off the bottom of ninth, in a 9–9 tie and with the count one ball, zero strikes, Mazeroski hit a line drive toward deep left field that cleared the wall for ...