BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " VALMY THOMAS " WAS A MAJOR LEADUE BASEBALL CATCHER IN HIS FIVE YEARS CAREER : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

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Valmy Thomas (October 21, 1925 – October 16, 2010)^[1][2] was a Major League Baseball catcher. In his five-year career, he played for five different home cities: the New York Giants (1957), the San Francisco Giants (1958), the Philadelphia Phillies (1959), theBaltimore Orioles (1960), and the Cleveland Indians (1961). He was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

After his major league career, while playing for Atlanta of the International League, Thomas was shot and critically wounded by Cleveland Lyons in a dispute over a woman.^[3]

Thomas died in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, at the age of 84.