Jim Thome was the answer. The Peoria native and 2018 Baseball Hall of Famer was the No. 1 trending sports topic on Twitter for parts of Tuesday. The reason? Jack Coleman — a producer for the ...

Mike Hargrove managed both Kenny Lofton in Cleveland and Ichiro Suzuki in Seattle during the primes of their careers. If ...

He is now the first ever ball player to have worn a Knights uniform to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Thome is currently a Special Assistant to the Senior VP/General Manager of the Chicago ...

A Central Illinois native in the Hall of Fame was the featured speaker at Illinois State baseball’s recent Dugout Club dinner ...

187 batting average against in 903 innings also are Hall of Fame stats. He finished with ... Murray (1,099), Dave Winfield (1,093) and Jim Thome (1,089). He’s tied with Cal Ripken Jr.

Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. With players this accomplished and an institution so steeped in history, there ...

Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA ... Chipper Jones, Jim Thome. ME: Jack Morris, Alan Trammell. 2017 — BBWAA: Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez.