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THOMAS CROW (born January 11th 1972 in Abington PA). Thomas is a retired professional baseball player from the Montreal Expos minor leauge system. He played one year for the Gulf Coast League Expos rookie ball team, one year for the Harrisburg Senators in AA ball, and two years for the West Palm Beach Expos in A ball.

Thomas grew up and played high school baseball for the Hatboro-Horsham Hatters where he lettered in baseball all four years. While there he played short stop and was a starting pitcher, earnning all conference three times as a pitcher and two years as short stop. Thomas also earned All State honerable mention as a pitcher in 1990 and was named the starting pitcher for the Carpender Cup in 1990. At graduation in 1990 Thomas held the All Time struck out batters record for the Hatter were he was able to strike out the opponent 241 times in his time as a pitcher.

Thomas played Leigon baseball for the Upper Moreland Morelanders from 1988 to 1990. While with the Morelanders Thomas played with future Major League Baseball player Gene Schall and against future Major League player Scott Forester, Thomas and Gene maintained a close friendship during their playing careers. During his time with the Morelanders Thomas earned all league every year as both a short stop and pitcher, he was also named league MVP and Player of the Year in 1990. In 1988 Thomas helped the Morelanders on their run in the playoffs where the team made it to within one game of heading to the State Finals losing to Spring City in game 3 of 3. During this run Thomas stood out as a pitcher, winning 3 out of 3 starts with an ERA of 1.2 while striking out 34 batter and walking only 2, this was the first time scouts started to compare Thomas to the Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean. Thomas also caught a lot of attention as a short stop by commiting zero errors and hitting a league leading .567 with 7 home runs and 13 RBI's. All of this was done at the age of 16 years old playing against most players who were 18 years old.

After High School Thomas attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he played 3rd base and also did late inning releif pitching. At this point in his carrer Thomas came into his own as a defensive player at thrid base with well above average arm strengh and range he was also by far the fastest player on the Rams. Thomas lead the Rams in 3 out of the 4 years in stolen bases, saves, RBI's and overall batting average. In the 1991 the Rams came within one win of advancing to the College World Series in a loss to the University of Texas. In 1994 Thomas was drafted in the 7th round with the 196th overall pick to the Montreal Expos where the team turned him into a right fielder and his Ram teammate Adam Bryant was drafted in the 27th round with the 744th overall pick to the Cincinnati Reds as a pitcher. Thomas was climbing through the minor league system and in 1995 was named as a "prospect of the future" by Baseball Today. Then in 1997 he sustained a career ending injury to his right eye and put an end to his incredible carrer. As of the publishing of this page in 2003, Thomas had two beautiful baby girls who he loves with all his heart, this author hopes one of them picks up softball so we can see "Crow #13" on the back of a jersey once again.