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From Milwaukee, Wis., Al Thom lettered three times in baseball (1962-64) and twice in football (1960 and 1963). In football, he was named first-team All-CCIW and Peoria Journal-Star all-state in 1963 with 54 tackles and six interceptions.
He went on to teach and coach baseball at Cudahy Junior High School in Cudahy, Wis. from 1965 to 1969. From Cudahy, Thom went to Eastern Michigan University, where he served as a graduate assistant baseball coach for the NAIA champion Hurons (now known as the EMU Eagles) in 1970. After receiving his master’s from Eastern Michigan in 1970, Thom completed a 40-year stint at Monroe County Community College in Monroe, Mich., when he retired in 2010.
While at Monroe County, he coached baseball (1972-80), cross country (1970-71), tennis (1971) and assisted in basketball (1973-80). Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Bill Laskey was one of Thom’s baseball players at Monroe County. After the school dropped its athletic program in 1980, Thom served as an assistant professor in the health sciences division.
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