Jason Thompson (first baseman, born 1954)
| Jason Thompson | |||
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| First baseman | |||
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Born: July 6, 1954 Hollywood, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 23, 1976, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| April 24, 1986, for the Montreal Expos | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .261 | ||
| Home runs | 208 | ||
| Runs batted in | 782 | ||
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Jason Dolph Thompson (born July 6, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, and the current owner and operator of Jason Thompson Baseball, which offers baseball instruction in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He threw and batted left-handed.
Thompson was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifteenth round of the 1972 Major League Baseball draft, but chose instead to play ball at Cal-State Northridge. He was then selected in the fourth round of the 1975 Major League Baseball draft by the Detroit Tigers.
In his first professional season, 1975, he batted .324 with 10 home runs and 38 runs batted in for the Southern League's Montgomery Rebels. With regular first baseman Dan Meyer batting .192 with only two RBIs, the Tigers gave the job to Thompson early into the 1976 season. He responded by going four-for-five in his third game as a major leaguer.
Despite batting just .218, Thompson led the Tigers with seventeen home runs and was third on the club with 54 RBIs. He also earned a reputation as one of the top fielding first basemen in the American League. Following the season, he was named to the Topps Rookie All-Star team.
In 1977, Thompson was batting .276 with twelve home runs and 65 RBIs at the All-Star break to gain selection to the AL squad, but he did not appear in the game. He was named to the All-Star team again a year later, and flew out to George Foster in his only at-bat.
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