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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Toronto's Thomas not bitter ... Beane there, done that

Let's get this out on the table right away. Frank Thomas, almost 39 years old and on the cusp of his 18th big-league season, knows how to go about his business.

Thus, the reason that at 9 a.m. on photo day at the Toronto Blue Jays' minor-league complex, three hours before the team is required to stretch and well before most of his teammates have even shaken the cobwebs from the previous night's sleep, Thomas is in the batting cage.

The drills that have made 500 home runs inevitable are repeated again and again.

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Thomas gives Jays solid leadership

A decent man can go a long ways in a major league clubhouse. A few decent men even further.

Frank Thomas is going to try to be one of those guys with the Toronto Blue Jays this summer and next. With, as the old song goes, a little help from his friends.

"I've had a lot of great elder teammates through the days," Thomas said over the weekend in Dunedin. "Carlton Fisk, Harold Baines ? I think Harold was the epitome of it. You would never know Harold Baines was in the room, I don't care how many years he had. He was just such a class act. Tim Raines? Great guy.

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Thomas, Clayton happy to join Blue Jays

The two newest faces in the Toronto Blue Jays' starting lineup ambled into training camp Tuesday.

Frank Thomas and Royce Clayton, two veterans with vastly different skill sets, arrived excited about their first season in Toronto.

Thomas, the designated hitter who spent the first 16 years of his career with the Chicago White Sox before moving to Oakland last year, said he embraced the idea of joining a new team for a second straight season.

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