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Chris Thompson -- Minor League Pitcher

Christopher Michael Thompson is a member of our extended Family's up-and-coming-generation. “Chris has loved and played baseball since he was seven years old.  He has always said from that time on that he was going to be a professional baseball player when he grew up.  He attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High School (Mobile, Alabama) where he played for all four years and lettered three of the four.  For college, Chris attended Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Mississippi (scholarship) for two years, and then Ole Miss on scholarship for his last two years.  He was drafted in 2004 by the Arizona Diamondbacks.  His first full year was spent at every level (A, AA, & AAA) of Diamondbacks minor leagues, but most of his time for 2005 was spent in Lancaster, California.  Chris started his second year in spring training with the Diamondbacks, but he was traded to the Washington Nationals to start the 2006 season with AAA in New Orleans.  That year, he was minor league pitcher of the entire Nationals minor league system for the month of July 2006.  He finished his season in Woodbridge, Virginia, with a 3.00 ERA. If things go right in spring training this year, he will start out in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the AA Senators.” (Chris’ story is shared by his proud Mom, Alma Fletcher Thompson.) Chris was born 02 January 1982 in Mobile. He is a fifth great-grandson of John Marshall and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall, descending through their son Samuel Marshall (wife, Phebe Perry), and his son Simeon Hovey Marshall (wife, Mary Jane Hoover). Chris is the son of Alma Fletcher and Fred Thompson, the grandson of Charles Tennant Fletcher (1922-2001) and Kathryn Boone (born 1928), and the great-grandson of William Hoyt Fletcher (1888-1961) and Ethel Moore (1889-1961).

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