{"id":453853,"date":"2026-02-02T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:55:08","slug":"frank-thomas-reacts-to-omission-from-white-sox-black-history-month-tribute-im-taking-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453853\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Thomas reacts to omission from White Sox Black History Month tribute: \u2018I\u2019m taking receipts!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HFCDRCO7JRA4ZGM7FSESIHFGWM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=126006X1587338&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=manuel-gomez%7C&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmlb.com%2Fwhitesox&amp;product_category=Sporting+Goods%3EAthletics%3EBaseball+%26+Softball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/mlb.com\/whitesox\">White Sox<\/a> legend \u2014 and Baseball Hall of Famer \u2014 Frank Thomas didn\u2019t just notice the omission, he took it personally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RSUQDYFQNBCTVMKZKHCZMG3C4U\">\u201cI Guess the black player who made you rich over there and holds all your records is forgettable!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBigHurt_35\/status\/2017997339139407941?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBigHurt_35\/status\/2017997339139407941?s=20\">Thomas wrote on X\/Twitter<\/a>. \u201cDon\u2019t worry I\u2019m taking Receipts!<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AN2U6ZHH35E4ZO7NJTSKHCULTM\">In honor of Black History Month, the White Sox published a timeline on social media detailing \u201cmomentous firsts\u201d for the organization. In it, many players were featured, except for, perhaps, the greatest player in the franchise\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SHQWHVOHVFDB7CTJGIJVTQLEIU\">A two-time AL MVP (1993, 1994), Thomas spent 16 of his 19 Major League seasons on the South Side, where he became the face of the organization throughout the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KS7MCQLOVNG3TB66ARRRM744JE\">Nicknamed \u201cThe Big Hurt,\u201d he combined elite power with exceptional plate discipline, finishing his White Sox career with 448 home runs, a .307 batting average, and a .427 on-base percentage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"U4VSA56PORDZ7O6Y2JCNF67BVE\">Thomas led the AL in OPS four times, helped guide Chicago to multiple postseason appearances, and set numerous franchise records, including runs scored and walks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QTYQVQDXZZDCLHXIVHNGPTKYLI\">His impact was immortalized in 2014 when the White Sox retired his No. 35, and later that year he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Sox legend \u2014 and Baseball Hall of Famer \u2014 Frank Thomas didn\u2019t just notice the omission, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-453853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}