Title drives Jays’ slugger Thomas

The World Series ring Frank Thomas won with the 2005 Chicago White Sox sits in a trophy case at his Las Vegas- area home.

Every once in a while he looks at it and smiles, remembering the sheer joy of the moment. Nomatter that he didn’t have an at- bat after July 20 that year, or that he watched the post- season idly with his foot immobolized, or that he missed the on- field celebrations.

That championship was the pinnacle of his decade and a half in the south side of Chicago and nothing, not the pain of watching from the sidelines nor the subsequent messy breakup with the White Sox, can take away from it.

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