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 ...

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.

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

See our list and how we ranked them. Hargrove joined Lofton and ex-Indians pitcher Charles Nagy in person along with 2018 Hall of Fame inductee Jim Thome (via video call) on Thursday at the ...

He displaces 250-pound Jim Thome. (And way heavier than the biggest ... Wagner and Whitey Ford are the only Hall of Fame pitchers that short to debut in the past 90 years. It’s a reminder ...

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 ...