Frank Thomas
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After his departure from the White Sox, he played for the Oakland Athletics in 2006 and the Toronto Blue Jays in 2007, before Toronto released him in April 2008 and he finished his playing career back in Oakland that season. He retired from professional baseball in 2010. He signed a single day contract with the Chicago White Sox to announce his retirement.
Quick Facts
- Birth Date
- 27 May, 1968
- Age
- 51 yrs
- Occupations
- Baseball player
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- Citizenship
- United States of America
- Birth Place
- Columbus
- Education
- Auburn University
- Gender
- Male
- Description
- American baseball player
- Net Worth 2021
- 40 million
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Thomas has several credits to his name. He is the only player to have a batting average of 0.300 with at least 100 RBI, 100 runs, 100 walks and 20 home runs in seven consecutive seasons (1991-1997). He has voted to All-Star team for five consecutive years from 1993 to 1997. He is a four-time winner of the Silver Slugger award and two-time winner of the AL Most Valuable Player award. In 2014, his first year of eligibility, he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Thomas would finish his career in the top 10 all time in the AL in home runs, RBI, walks, slugging percentage and on base percentage. He currently stands at 20th all-time in Major League history in home runs, with 521. In 2011, the White Sox honored him with a bronze statue at US Cellular Field.
Thomas was an outspoken advocate of the league’s drug testing policy during baseball’s “steroids era.” Most believe, and Thomas has always maintained, that he played the game clean.
Personal life
Thomas is married to Megan Thomas. He and his wife are doting parents, who regularly attend their children’s sporting events and post pictures of them on social media. Thomas’ earlier marriage to Elise Silver ended in a divorce. Thomas and Elise had four kids from their marriage- Frank III, Sterling, Sydney and Sloan.
After retiring from baseball Thomas joined NBC Chicago as studio analyst and commentator for White Sox broadcasts. From 2014 to 2023, Thomas was a regular studio analyst for MLB on Fox, and in 2023 he joined Apple TV+’s Friday Night Baseball coverage.
Business
He had an inclination to music during his baseball days and invested in the business of music. He founded his own record label, Un-D-Nyable Entertainment. He is also the CEO and founder of W2W Records. In 2014, he opened a brewpub, Big Hurt’s Brewhouse in suburban Chicago, which has since closed. He has his own micro-brewery, Big Hurt Beer which is sold locally in Chicago. In 2021, he led a group that bought a controlling interest in the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa. Thomas is estimated to have a net worth of $65 million.
