Clint Thomas
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Clinton Cyrus Thomas (November 25, 1896 – December 2, 1990), nicknamed "Hawk", was an American professional baseball player born in Greenup, Kentucky. He 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.
Career
Thomas played for the Brooklyn Royal Giants, Columbus Buckeyes, Detroit Stars, Hilldale Club,[1] 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 World Series in 1925.[2] He 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.[3]
After his baseball career ended, Thomas worked as a custodian and staff supervisor for the West Virginia Department of Mines and as a messenger for the State Senate. He died on December 2, 1990, in Charleston, West Virginia.[2][4]
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- Career statistics from Script error: No such module "String".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
- Clint Thomas at SABR Bio Project
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- 1896 births
- 1990 deaths
- Bacharach Giants players
- Brooklyn Royal Giants players
- Chicago American Giants players
- Columbus Buckeyes (Negro leagues) players
- Detroit Stars players
- Hilldale Club players
- Homestead Grays players
- New York Lincoln Giants players
- New York Black Yankees players
- New York Cubans players
- Newark Eagles players
- People from Greenup, Kentucky