Hank Thompson (other)
Hank Thompson may refer to: *Hank Thompson (baseball) (1925–1969), American third baseman *Hank Thompson (musician) (1925–2007), country music singer and songwriter See also *Henry Thompson (other) Henry Thompson may refer to: * Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet (1820–1904), British surgeon * Henry Thompson (1625–1683) (1620s–1683), English merchant and politician * Henry Thompson (1659–1700), English landowner and politician * Henry Th ...

Hank Thompson (baseball)
Henry Curtis Thompson (December 8, 1925 – September 30, 1969) was an American player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played primarily as a third baseman. A left-handed batter, he played with the Dallas Green Monarchs (1941), Kansas City Monarchs (1943, 1946–47, 1948), St. Louis Browns (1947) and New York Giants (1949–56). Early life Thompson was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Negro leagues At the beginning of his career, he was a hard-hitting star for the Monarchs in the Negro American League, playing both infield and outfield. At 17, he played right field in his first season, batting .300. World War II The following year he was drafted into the Army. Thompson was a machine gunner with the 1695th Combat Engineers at the historic Battle of the Bulge. A few years later, he was nicknamed ''Ametralladora'' (Spanish for "machine gun") by Cuban fans while playing in the Cuban Winter League. Sergeant Thompson was discharged on June 20, 1946, an ...
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Hank Thompson (musician)
Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades. Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals. His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by ''Billboard Magazine, Billboard''. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played; the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged; however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits. Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recor ...
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