I know it’s Thomson, but on this ad bloated site the words I type or dictate often don’t come up until a minute or so later so I might not notice typos or auto corrects.. Bobby Thomson went to the same high school as my Dad on Staten Island, though Bobby was a few years younger.
My Dad had a contract to start spring training in the Yankees minor league camp in 1942, but he got called into service and by the time he got out it was too late to start a professional baseball career. But he got a job in Milwaukee after getting married and played in the old industrial league. His name is on the Old Time Ballpayers Association Sandlot Hall of Fame that is on display at Am Fam Field.
Anyway, there are a lot of other and more recent examples of dramatic late turnarounds, like the Tigers overtaking the Twins in the wild card race last year, the Cardinals, winning like 17 in a row in September of 2021 to come from nowhere to get a playoff spot, and many more. I just focused on the old ones because they planted in my head that it isn’t over until it’s over.