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Fairy tale? No, just one of excellence.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fairy tale? No, just one of excellence.(Sports)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mike Imrem

Frank Thomas never has been about fairy tales.

If he were, he would have hit a couple of home runs and driven in the White Sox' winning run Monday.

Ah, but Thomas' career, the greatest in Sox history, has been more of a grind-it-out affair.

Thomas won back-to-back Most Valuable Player awards in the 1990s. He had a series of seasons that ranked him with the likes of Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx.

At the end of each season, you would look up and see Thomas'...



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