* 1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player

Veterans Dennis Martinez, Orel Hershiser and Eddie Murray combined with a young core of players including Albert Belle, Jim Thome, Manny Ramírez and Charles Nagy to lead the league in team batting average as well as team ERA.

Jim Thome ( shown as a member of the Chicago White Sox ), the all time Indians home run leader

On August 25, the Indians signed the team leader in home runs, Jim Thome off of waivers.

New regular players included rookie Danny Valencia at third base, designated hitter Jim Thome, closer Matt Capps, infielder J. J. Hardy, and infielder Orlando Hudson.

During the off-season, the team signed Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka to fill a hole in the middle infield, re-signed Jim Thome, who was in pursuit of career home run number 600, and also re-signed Carl Pavano.

He is also the career leader ( tied with Jim Thome ) in walk-off home runs, with a combined thirteen, twelve in the regular season and one in the postseason.

Some of the pros available include Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Éric Gagné, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Kenny Lofton, Ken Griffey, Jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Curt Schilling, and Barry Bonds.

The last publicly broadcast words uttered in the park were by Harry Kalas — a veteran announcer who helped open the facility on April 10, 1971 — who paraphrased his trademark home run call: " And now, Veterans Stadium is like a 3-1 pitch to Jim Thome or Mike Schmidt.

* Jim Thome

On July 3, 1999, Jim Thome hit the longest home run in Jacobs Field history, with a hit to center field.

* On June 14, 2004, Phillies first baseman Jim Thome hit his 400th career home run to the left-center field seats at Citizens Bank Park.

The starting catcher for the second game, Mike Redmond, however, was forced to leave the game in the first inning due to injury after accidentally being struck in the head by the bat of Jim Thome, and Mauer had to take the field as the replacement catcher.

However, his 21 home runs were still the second-highest total on the Phillies ( teammate Jim Thome led the NL with 47 ).

* Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians first baseman ( 1996 )

On June 14, 2004, Kalas called the 400th home run hit by Jim Thome, using the call he used in later years when it was uncertain whether the ball would clear the fence:

* Jim Thome Plaque: Located on the center field fan deck.

The description of the plaque reads " On June 4, 2008, Chicago White Sox slugger Jim Thome became the first player ever to hit a baseball onto the Fan Deck of U. S. Cellular Field as the Sox beat the Kansas City Royals.

* A Thome Ticker counting down to Jim Thome's 500th Career Home Run ( Hit on September 16 against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ).

* A small plaque honoring Jim Thome located on the center field fan deck for his 464 foot home run shot that landed there, becoming the first player ever to do so on June 4, 2008.

The new AAA Knights, led by future major-league stars Jim Thome and Manny Ramírez, won the International League title in 1993.

In 157 games, Pujols hit 43 home runs ( fourth in the league, behind Jim Thome, Richie Sexson, and Bonds ) and had 124 RBIs ( tied with Sexson for fourth and behind Preston Wilson, Gary Sheffield, and Thome ).

James Howard " Jim " Thome (; born August 27, 1970 in Peoria, Illinois ) is an American professional baseball player.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.

Myra dropped Cathy this morning, and Jim picked Cathy up and left Susan a few hours ago.

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

This lineup of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band.

While relations were cordial between the two companies at first, the departure of Jim Levy from Activision left Bruce Davis in charge.

Baltimore went on to win the first post-merger Super Bowl ( Super Bowl V ) defeating the National Football Conference's Dallas Cowboys 16 – 13, on a Jim O ' Brien field goal with five seconds left to play.

When Weissmuller finally left that role, he immediately traded his loincloth costume for a slouch hat and safari suit for the role of Jungle Jim ( 1948 ) for Columbia.

Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

Manager Greg Riddoch was dismissed with 12 games left in the season, to be replaced by Jim Riggleman, under whose supervision the Padres would go 4-8 to finish the season.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

Both of their starting running backs from the previous year, future Pro Football Hall of Famers Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor, had left the team.

It was finally settled with five seconds left when Colts rookie kicker Jim O ' Brien kicked a 32-yard field goal.

Miami started the ensuing drive with just 1: 15 left in the half, and quarterback Bob Griese completed three consecutive passes, two to receiver Paul Warfield and one to running back Jim Kiick, for 44 total yards to reach the Dallas 24-yard line.

Although Jim and Della are now left with gifts that neither one can use, they realize how far they are willing to go to show their love for each other, and how priceless their love really is.

The periods of 2001-2002 and 2003-2007 were the first times since 1953-1955 that there was single-party Republican leadership in Washington, interrupted from 2001-2003 as Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republicans to become independent and caucused with the Democrats to give them the 51-49 Senate majority.

( left to right ) George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury ( 1991 – 2002 ), Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi ( UK ), Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia, Jim Wallis, Sojourners, USA.

In the first of these, on February 8, 1887, Luke Short and Jim Courtright had a shootout on Main Street that left Courtright dead and Short the " King of Fort Worth Gamblers.

McFaul left the managerial post, and was replaced by Jim Smith.

STAR's chief designer, Jim Thornton, then left CDC to form the Network Systems Corporation.

Reconstruction was never completed by the federal government and left the blacks in a world of Jim Crow political, social and economic inferiority.

James Edward " Jim " Rice ( born March 8, 1953 ), nicknamed " Jim Ed ", is a former Major League Baseball left fielder.