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Tommy Thompson (outfielder)

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Batting average
  
.266

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Tommy Thompson

Runs batted in
  
119

Home runs
  
9


Tommy Thompson (outfielder) Six years sober Tommy Thompson making the most of a precious second

Died
  
May 24, 1971, Auburn, California, United States

Rupert Lockhart "Tommy" Thompson (May 19, 1910 – May 24, 1971) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Braves (1933–36), Chicago White Sox (1938–39), and St. Louis Browns (1939). He was born in Elkhart, Illinois and died in Auburn, California.

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In total he played 22 seasons of professional baseball beginning with the Bloomington Bloomers of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League in 1928. His best season may have been with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League in 1945, when he had a batting average of .346. His last professional season was with the Pampa Oilers of the West Texas – New Mexico League in 1953.

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