Jim Tom is a well-known American baseball player with a Silver Bat. He is known for his accomplishments during the Major League Baseball game. The athlete was once famous for the power of the blow and knocked out 612 home runs.
Biography
The full name of the baseball player is James Howard (Jim) Tom, who was born on August 27, 1970 in Peoria, Illinois. His parents were office workers, but they were quite active in sports.
Back in high school, Jim successfully played baseball and basketball. He then studied at Illinois Central College, where he was spotted by the Cleveland Indians on the 13th round of the 1989 MLB project.
After graduating from college, Tom was admitted to the Cleveland Indian Club. There, he worked with a former Indian strike trainer - tribal manager - Charlie Manuel.
Tom is still the absolute leader of Indians in home runs, walks and outs (1400).
Sports career
In 1989, Jim made his debut in Major League Baseball. At first he was a third base player, but pretty quickly moved to the first line. Jim's first season did not go well, with a score of.237 without home runs. But within a year, the athlete “got into shape” and achieved high results.
A baseball player has established himself as a successful player with a powerful and smooth kick. After some time, Jim Tom became one of the main players in the Indiana. During his game, the club got into the World Series twice in three years.
Cleveland survived seven unsuccessful seasons in a row until 1994, but with the help of Tom and other baseball rising stars Carlos Baerga, Kenny Lofton and Sandy Alomar Jr., Cleveland became the main contender for the World Series for a decade.
In one of his interviews, to the question of how he is played among the “stars, ” he replied: “When I got into the big leagues, all I wanted to do was survive.”
Having lived for more than ten years in Cleveland, the athlete in 2002 as a free agent moved to Philadelphia Phyllis, where he played for the next three seasons.
After a campaign in 2002, where he knocked out 52 home runs, Tom led AL in a percentage drop of 0.677. The athlete signed a contract with the agent "Philadelphia Phillies" for 6 years. Jim shot 47 home runs in 2003 and another 42 in 2004, but due to a serious injury to his elbow, he was forced to miss most of the 2005 season.
In 2003, according to a Cleveland Plain-Dealer fan poll, Tom was named the most popular baseball player in Cleveland’s sports history.
In 2005, after completing a contract with Philadelphia, Tom exchanged with the White Sox. This was a deliberate decision, since the athlete after the death of his mother wanted to be closer to his father.
Jim played quite successfully as part of this team and won the “Return of the Year AL” award. Tom confidently played in the first season in Chicago and became a constant striker, setting a team record for most home runs, as well as breaking Frank Thomas's record. Here he knocked out his 500th home run.
However, injuries did not bypass the baseball player and severe back pain did not allow him to play at the same level. He began to take up the position of the appointed batter.
Then Jim Tom played in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins. After which he returned for some time to Cleveland and Philadelphia, and ended his professional career at Baltimore Orioles.
After Tom left baseball, he was offered a managerial position in the White Sox.
