Hank Thompson Giants/ Baseball Goes to War Miller Press / FREE SHIP / NM+

Description: About this card: It is an original, not a reprint or copy of any existing card. Created on a printing press, not a homemade digital or inkjet product. 200 of this card issued in 1990, no "parallels" or variations were made. Same size as a standard vintage 60s or 70s card. Designed and manufactured as a print sample by Miller Press Printing Co. Shipped quickly and securely, inside a brand new soft sleeve and rigid toploader. Guaranteed book value: This card will always be worth more than you paid. The minimum "book value" is the price above. I will buy this card back from you for what you paid any time you ask. Next week, next year, or ten years from now. I can do this only because I know that this card is worth more than I am selling it for. About Grouchy: 21 years selling cards online. Before that, owner of Space City Cards Comics & Coins on Main St. in Houston. As a kid I loved baseball and football, and collected cards starting in 1959 - that's 60 years, but it feels like yesterday. I have bought and sold millions of sports cards over the years. The kids who used to frequent my card shop named me the "Grouchy Old Man" because I had to keep them in line. The nickname stuck. I'm not that grouchy anymore. I have over 100,000 online transactions, with an average feedback score of 100% over the years. COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT Shipping is combined automatically in your cart. I cannot combine shipping after payment is made. Pay for all items at once and save time and money. ABOUT HANK THOMPSON: Although Hank Thompson clubbed 129 big league home runs before his career came to an end in 1956, it is what he did off the field which makes him noteworthy. In 1948, he killed a man (Buddy Crow) outside of a Dallas bar. Thompson claimed Crow had come at him with a knife and the case was labeled justifiable homicide. As time went on, however, Thompson had more brushes with the law. Being charged with auto theft and robbing a woman were not enough to throw Thompson in prison as he continued to draw more free passes in court than he did at the plate in baseball. Thompson continued to press his luck. In 1961, he robbed a bar with a gun while drunk and still managed to avoid a lengthy jail sentence after Giants owner Horace Stoneham and MLB commissioner Ford Frick requested that the judge give Thompson probation. In '62 he traveled to Houston, where he tried to catch on with the brand new Colts franchise, but got into a drunken fight with another player and made such an ass of himself that the Colts banned him from their facility. Finally in 1963, the gig was up for the former Giant. He was convicted and sent off to prison for an armed robbery he committed in Texas. Sentenced to ten years, he served just three thanks to good behavior. Thompson later blamed much of his trouble on alcohol and during speaking engagements that came his way, encouraged youngsters to avoid his mistakes. He later became a city playground director in Fresno, CA. Hank Thompson was just 43 when he died of a seizure in 1969. Because of that, his autographs are a bit hard to find and somewhat expensive.

Price: 7.95 USD

Location: Dickinson, Texas

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