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Jim Thome full name James Howard Jim Thome is a Major League Baseball designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox.

Jim Thome originally played for the Cleveland Indians, joining the team for the first time in 1991 as a third baseman. 

In 1997, when the Indians traded for Matt Williams, Jim Thome shifted over to first base.

At the plate, Jim Thome began to come into his own by 1995, when Jim Thome hit 25 home runs and 73 runs batted in with 

a .314 batting average. 

Jim Thome then hit 38 home runs in 1996 and 40 in 1997. 

Jim Thome soon became a prolific home run hitter, once hitting a 511-foot or 156-meter shot at Jacobs Field, 

the longest home run ever recorded at a Cleveland ballpark. 

Jim Thome hit 49 home runs with the Indians in 2001, followed by a career-high 52 homers in 2002.

Jim Thome has been nicknamed The Thomenator and the Pride of Peoria. Jim Thome Wildly beloved 

by Indians fans, a Cleveland Plain Dealer fan poll in 2003 named Jim Thome the most popular athlete in Cleveland sports history. 

Some of Jim Thome trademarks are his high socks, that he helped make popular again in the mid-'90s, at a time when players wore 

their pant cuffs down around their ankles, and Jim Thome batting stance in which Jim Thome holds the bat out with Jim Thome right 

hand and points it at right field before the pitcher comes set, a gesture Jim Thome borrowed from The Whammer in the film The Natural.

Jim Thome born August 27, 1970 in Peoria, Illinois.