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Peoria native Jim Thome back in uniform, this time coaching his son to an IHSA state title
Journal Star via Yahoo Sports· 12 months agoJim Thome is back in uniform this spring as an assistant for LaGrange Park Nazareth — now helping...
Why is Jim Thome trending? Peoria hall of fame slugger part of podcast marathon challenge
Gannett via AOL· 3 months agoJim Thome is the answer. As of Tuesday morning, the Peoria native and 2018 Baseball Hall of Famer was the No. 1 trending sports tropic on Twitter. The reason? Jack Coleman — a producer for the ...
'Fluke accident': Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Thome of Peoria suffers three facial fractures
Journal Star via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoPEORIA — Hall of Fame slugger Jim Thome KO'd a lot of teams with home runs during his storied baseball career. In fact, the Peoria native launched an MLB record 13 walk-off homers. But last ...
Analyzing the Hall of Fame cases of Manny Ramirez, Omar Vizquel, Kenny Lofton
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoThree of Cleveland's key players from the teams of the 1990s continue to lose momentum when it comes...
Munson Stadium crowded like never before; 600 games, big plans, and a baseball wedding
The Repository via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoCANTON − The magic of Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium faded into the autumn of 1996. It was the year...
'It really did happen': How Washington native Mason McCoy put his MLB debut into words
Journal Star via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoPEORIA — Mason McCoy is a major league baseball player at last. After six years and 653 games in the...
At its Grassroots, baseball is just fun
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 15—Baseball's an easy game to love. One that brings smiles to the faces of kids and adults. Tuesday night, for instance, UNM Lobo football coach Danny Gonzales was grinning ear to ear posing ...
Hundreds of Twins fans congratulate Mauer on Hall of Fame selection
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoThe line began forming before the sun came up, and included several hundred Twins fans by the time...
Lou Piniella on upcoming baseball Hall vote: ‘I feel like I belong’
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTAMPA — Lou Piniella has had his battles. Over the last few years with his own mortality, starting...
Tampa’s Fred McGriff officially joins baseball Hall of Fame
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoCOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — All you had to see was the reaction from the Hall of Famers on the stage when Fred McGriff was introduced at Sunday’s induction ceremony to know how well, and warmly, he ...
