Thomas knows he'll get swing going
Published 5/7/2008 by Mychael Urban at Major League Baseball News
When Frank Thomas first joined the A's before the 2006 season, he was coming off two years all but lost to injury, and during Spring Training he insisted that it would take him 150 plate appearances or so to find his Hall of Fame groove.
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