The Big Hurt Frank Thomas

4 Days. 4 days until pitchers and catchers report. 4 baseball until Jewsinbaseball.blogspot.com stops vacationing. 4 days until my White Sox begin their quest for a title. 4 days until having Jake Peavy for a full season makes me happier than a kid in a candy store.

To be honest as much as Peavy excites me there is no one who made me as excited for baseball year in and year out as Frank Thomas. I mean the man was a beast. His first 7 season were Ruthlike. And recently Thomas did what most of us thought he should've done a few years ago, hang it up. In 2014 he will enshrined into the Hall of Fame, wearing a White Sox cap. It will be an amazing HoF class...Thomas, Maddux, and Glavine should all be first ballot Hall of Famers.

So how is Frank Thomas Jewish?

Well, he is not. Despite IMDB.com suggesting that he converted, it is just not true (to mine and anyone else I know's knowledge). The only thing Frank Thomas should be on IMDB for is his amazing role in Mr. Baseball.

But Frank Thomas does have two Jewish connections. First, he was brought in by Jerry Reinsdorf. You might be thinking that TGR uses Reinsdorf to write about so many non-Jews...true...but Thomas has another connection. That connection is his legacy... his kids not his stats. Thomas was married to a Jewish woman named Elise Silver. She was the niece of Maury Silver who was a baseball pioneer in Rochester New York. Since Thomas has divorced Silver and remarried, but he has three children with Silver named Sterling, Sloan, and Sydney. If Sterling or Sydney have half the talent their father did, they we will be seeing them in the Majors one day.

So keep an eye out for these two. And also congrats to the Big Hurt and his White Sox career. Line Shot for Life.

And Let Us Say...Amen.

-Jeremy Fine