Hank Thompson

Henry Curtis Thompson (December 8, 1925 – September 30, 1969) was a left-handed third baseman who played in both the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he broke into professional ball at 17 with the Kansas City Monarchs, batting .300 in his first season. Thompson served as a machine gunner with the 1695th Combat Engineers at the Battle of the Bulge before returning to the Monarchs in 1946. He went on to play for the St. Louis Browns (1947) and the New York Giants (1949–56). Cuban Winter League fans nicknamed him Ametralladora — Spanish for "machine gun."