PEORIA — Hall of Fame slugger Jim Thome KO'd a lot of teams with home runs during his storied baseball career. In fact, the Peoria native launched an MLB record 13 walk-off homers. But last week ...

On Saturday, the Baltimore Orioles made a trade to pick up Jim Thome and make the former Indian slugger their new DH. The Orioles traded a pair of AA-ball players to get Thome, who is expected to ...

PEORIA — Hall of Fame slugger Jim Thome KO'd a lot of teams with home runs during his storied baseball career. In fact, the Peoria native launched an MLB record 13 walk-off homers. But last week ...

Thome stood 6-foot-4, loped around with a goofy grin plastered to his face and spoke as if his words were made of molasses and just wanted to take their sweet old time pouring out of his mouth. A ...

Yet just as the iconic slugger's pro career was starting in the late 1980s, Thome fell unsuspecting victim to a popular prank from Peoria disc jockey Gary Olson — who died on Feb. 7 at age 65 ...