Clint Thomas

Thomas at the 1924 Colored World Series.

Clint "Hawk" Thomas (November 25, 1896 – December 3, 1990) was a professional baseball player born in Greenup, Kentucky. Thomas was an outfielder and second baseman in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1938, where he earned the nickname "Hawk" for his sharp-eyed hitting and center field skills. Thomas played for the Brooklyn Royal Giants, Columbus Buckeyes, Detroit Stars, Hilldale Club, Bacharach Giants, New York Lincoln Giants, New York Harlem Stars, Indianapolis ABCs, New York Black Yankees, Newark Eagles, and Philadelphia Stars. Thomas was a member of the Philadelphia Hilldale teams that won three consecutive Eastern Colored League championships from 1923 to 1925 and the Negro League World Series in 1925.^[1]

Thomas joined the New York Black Yankees in 1931 and, the following year, "ruined" the opening of Greenlee Field by scoring the only run and making a game saving catch in the Black Yankees defeat of Satchel Paige's Pittsburgh Crawfords.

Nicknamed 'The Black DiMaggio', he once hit a home run off Fidel Castro in an exhibition game in Cuba.^[2]

After his baseball career ended, Thomas worked as a custodian and staff supervisor for the West Virginia Department of Mines and a messenger for the State Senate. Thomas died December 3, 1990 in Charleston, West Virginia.^[1][3]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Riley 2002, p. 775.
2. ^ The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. Sterling Publishing. 2007. pp. 1699. ISBN 1-4027-4771-3. 
3. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7D81039F935A35751C1A966958260 Clinton C. Thomas, Baseball Player, 94 - New York Times

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Riley 2002, p. 775.
2. ^ The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. Sterling Publishing. 2007. pp. 1699. ISBN 1-4027-4771-3. 
3. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7D81039F935A35751C1A966958260 Clinton C. Thomas, Baseball Player, 94 - New York Times

Sources

• Riley, James A. (2002), The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, New York: Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786709596 
• http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Thomas_Clint.stm
• http://www.uky.edu/Subject/aakyall.html

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Name	Thomas, Clint
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Date of birth	November 25, 1896
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Date of death	December 3, 1990
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