The first player with Alabama roots picked in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft in 2023 already has reached the big leagues. A former Florence High School standout, Grant Taylor zipped ...

If Frank Thomas had been selected in the Major League Baseball draft coming out of Columbus (Georgia) High School in 1986, he wouldn’t have gone to Auburn to play football. And if he hadn’t ...

Thomas won his first of back-to-back MVP awards that season after batting .317 with 41 home runs and 128 RBI. He finished his career at .301, 521 and 1,704 — first-ballot Hall numbers, to be sure.

Frank Thomas is a 6 foot 5 inch hulk of a man, the 7 th player in MLB history to retire with a batting average greater than .300 and more than 500 home runs. He was also thought of as a clean ...

Thomas, 45, finished his 19-year career with a .301 average, 521 home runs (18th all time), 1,704 RBI (22nd all time), .419 on-base percentage (19th all time), .555 slugging percentage (22nd all ...

Baseball legend Frank Thomas will soon have a statue at his alma mater, Auburn University, permanently cementing his history there. ... In this February 1996 photo, Frank Thomas, ...

They might be the 30 greatest young hitters in baseball history. And Frank Thomas stands out among them. Only Ted Williams walked more per game than the young Thomas.

Former Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas was voted into the Hall of Fame today with 83.7% of the baseball writers’ vote. Some fans will remember Thomas most for his 521 home runs and 1,704 RBI.

Thomas is one of only four players to hit at least .300 with more than 500 homers, 1,500 RBI, 1,000 runs and 1,500 walks in baseball history, joining the likes of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Mel Ott.

Thomas was in the Major Leagues from 1990 through 2008, but he figures he actually played 16 seasons of baseball thanks to something else he took from football. “I had a bad ankle from football ...