{"product_id":"framed-autographed-signed-frank-thomas-35x39-chicago-pinstripe-baseball-jersey-jsa-coa","title":"Framed Autographed\/Signed Frank Thomas 35x39 Chicago Pinstripe Baseball Jersey JSA COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eFramed Autographed\/Signed Frank Thomas Chicago White Sox Pinstripe Baseball Jersey JSA COA – Personally Signed by “The Big Hurt,” the Most Dominant Right-Handed Power Hitter the Chicago White Sox Have Ever Produced, Two-Time Consecutive American League MVP, Baseball Hall of Famer, and the Player Whose Command of the Strike Zone Made Him One of the Most Feared and Respected Offensive Presences in the History of the American League\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The nickname “The Big Hurt” was given to Frank Thomas by a Chicago White Sox broadcaster in his early professional years, and it stuck because it described something real and observable about what he did to baseballs and to the earned run averages of the pitchers who faced him. Thomas was a large man – listed at 6'5” and 257 pounds during his playing days – who hit the ball with the kind of raw power that the measurements now capture in exit velocity terms but that scouts in the early 1990s described in the language of the field: the way the ball left the bat differently than it left anyone else's bat, the way the sound of contact was distinctive enough that the people watching from the stands could tell before the trajectory confirmed it that the ball was hit with a quality of force that most hitters do not generate. The nickname named something true, and Frank Thomas spent eighteen professional seasons adding evidence to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Frank Edward Thomas Jr. was born May 27, 1968, in Columbus, Georgia, and played college football and baseball at Auburn University – he was recruited as a tight end and played football for two years before committing fully to baseball and developing into the prospect that the Chicago White Sox selected seventh overall in the 1989 MLB Draft. He arrived at the major league level in 1990 and spent the early years of the decade establishing himself as the American League's most dangerous right-handed hitter: a player who combined the power to hit thirty or more home runs in a season with a patience at the plate that produced walk totals and on-base percentages that were, in the statistical terms that the game was still in the early process of fully understanding the value of, among the most impressive produced by any hitter in the league. He never struck out more than he walked in a single season during the peak of his career – a discipline that the statistics confirm and that pitchers who faced him describe in terms of the specific difficulty of pitching to a hitter who will not expand the zone, who makes you throw strikes, and who hits strikes with that much power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏟️ In 1993, Frank Thomas won his first American League Most Valuable Player Award with a season that the voters had little difficulty identifying as the best offensive performance in the league: a .317 average, 41 home runs, 128 runs batted in, 112 walks, and a .426 on-base percentage and .607 slugging percentage that produced an OPS above 1.000 for a season that established him, unambiguously, as the best hitter in the American League. In 1994, the season abbreviated by the labor stoppage that stopped the season in August, Thomas won the MVP Award again with numbers that were on pace to match or exceed what he had done in 1993 – back-to-back consecutive MVP Awards that placed him in the company of the most dominant hitters in the history of the sport at the same point in their careers. He finished his career with 521 home runs, 1,704 runs batted in, a .301 batting average, and a .419 on-base percentage that places him among the most disciplined hitters the game has produced at any position.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e👕 The Chicago White Sox pinstripe jersey – the classic home uniform with the pinstripes and the Sox wordmark that the franchise has worn in various forms throughout its South Side history – is the uniform that Frank Thomas wore for the dominant years of his career, the seasons that produced the MVPs and the statistics and the moments that the White Sox fanbase still references as the standard for what a hitter in their organization can be. A signed pinstripe White Sox jersey from Thomas and authenticated by JSA (James Spence Authentication) connects the collector to one of the most accomplished offensive careers in American League history. Framed to 35x39 for immediate wall display. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Frank Thomas. Columbus, Georgia. Chicago White Sox. First Base. The Big Hurt. 2x Consecutive AL MVP (1993–1994). 521 Career Home Runs. Baseball Hall of Fame 2014. JSA COA. Framed 35x39. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039586267368,"sku":"R0-Z0Q7-DP27","price":399.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/framed-autographed-signed-frank-thomas-35x39-chicago-pinstripe-baseball-jersey-jsa-coa-648.webp?v=1770236304","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/framed-autographed-signed-frank-thomas-35x39-chicago-pinstripe-baseball-jersey-jsa-coa","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}