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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).
Rickey Henderson leads all Major League Baseball players with 2,295 career runs scored. Listed are all Major League Baseball (MLB) players with 1,000 or more career runs scored. Players in boldface are active as of the 2025 Major League Baseball season.
The news that baseball star Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid," died Tuesday at 93 after a short illness, brought to mind the time Mays, Junior Gilliam, Gene Baker, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Hank ...
Herb Souell hit a two-out single to narrow the score to 3–2, but Hank Thompson committed an out to close the inning. In the closing inning, Kansas City reached base twice with a single by Smith and a walk to Chico Renfroe (which occurred after a critical single by Taborn failed because he tried to make it to second base and was called out).
Green Monarch Hank "Donkey" Thompson went on to Major League Baseball playing for the New York Giants. [4] The 1953 team played in the North Texas Negro Baseball League. [ 5 ] But the 1954 and 1955 Dallas team in that League was the Dallas Bluebirds and the Green Monarchs appear to have been dissolved.
Henderson's play in the 1989 postseason continued into the 1990 regular season, as he won AL MVP after batting .325 with 65 stolen bases, 28 home runs, 119 runs scored and 61 RBI.
July 8 – Hank Thompson and Monte Irvin are the first black players in Giants franchise history. Thompson starts at second base, and Irvin pinch-hits in the eighth inning. Thompson was also the first black to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1947, 12 days after Larry Doby's AL debut with the Cleveland Indians.
The film follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player who is “unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld” of New York City in the 1990s.