Frank Thomas

Bud Fowler was a flourishing baseball player and manager before and after baseball's color line was drawn at the end of the nineteenth century. He organized what would become the Page Fence Giants based in Adrian, Michigan in 1894. Named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, they would perform as one of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues through 1898, including an 82-game winning streak in 1897 and a showdown as Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds.

It started with the unheralded arrival of a wisecracking heavyweight basketball player named Charles Barkley. Then came the recruitment of multi-sports legend Bo Jackson, a victory in itself since he might have gone to Alabama. When Frank Thomas wasn't drafted by a major league baseball team, he decided to cast his fate with Auburn... as a football player. Told through an unforgettable reunion of the famed trio at the 2013 Iron Bowl, here's the real story of how these future Hall of Famers turned the orange and blue of Tiger athletics into gold.

メジャーリーグ、ニューヨーク・ヤンキースの強打者だったジャック・エリオットは、ワールドシリーズでMVPの獲得経験もある選手だが、最近の成績は低迷し自身の不祥事からCMの降板が決まるなどイメージも低下する一方だった。また、ルーキーのリッキー・デイビスとのポジション争いに敗れ、チーム側からトレードの通告を出されてしまう。この時唯一オファーを出したのは日本プロ野球の球団・中日ドラゴンズであった。