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Jason Dolph Thompson (born July 6, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, and the current owner and operator of Jason Thompson Baseball, which offers baseball instruction in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He threw and batted left-handed. ==Detroit Tigers== Thompson was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifteenth round of the 1972 Major League Baseball Draft, but chose instead to play ball at Cal-State Northridge. He was then selected in the fourth round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft by the Detroit Tigers. In his first professional season, , he batted .324 with 10 home runs and 38 runs batted in for the Southern League's Montgomery Rebels. With regular first baseman Dan Meyer batting .192 with only two RBIs, the Tigers gave the job to Thompson early into the season. He responded by going four-for-five in his third game as a major leaguer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Detroit Tigers 10, Oakland A's 2 )〕 Despite batting just .218, Thompson led the Tigers with seventeen home runs and was third on the club with 54 RBIs. He also earned a reputation as one of the top fielding first basemen in the American League. Following the season, he was named to the Topps Rookie All-Star team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wynegar, Thompson Top Rookie Team )〕 In , Thompson was batting .276 with twelve home runs and 65 RBIs at the All-Star break to gain selection to the AL squad, but he did not appear in the game.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game )〕 He was named to the All-Star team again a year later, and flew out to George Foster in his only at-bat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1978 Major League Baseball All-Star Game )〕 In 1979, in a nationally televised game on NBC on June 16, Thompson hit a foul ball over the roof in foul territory in right field completely out of Tiger Stadium off California Angels' right-hander Dave Frost. Thompson hit two home runs in the game, a 4–2 loss.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angels, 4 Tigers, 2 )〕 After getting off to a slow start in , Thompson was traded to the California Angels for Al Cowens on May 27. In four plus seasons with the Tigers, Thompson batted .256 with 98 home runs and 354 RBIs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jason Thompson (first baseman, born 1954)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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