Fresco Thompson (Baseball. Born, Centreville, AL, June 6, 1902; died, Fullerton, CA, Nov. 20, 1968.) A second baseman who did brief tours with the Giants (1926, 1934) and Brooklyn (1931-32), Lafayette Fresco Thompson later became a Dodgers executive. Thompson was named assistant farm director in 1949 and a vice president the next year after Walter […]
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