Records of Bob Thorpe on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Bob Thorpe in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bob Thorpe and the Thorpe Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thorpe Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Thorpe family tree.

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Thorpe Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called Bob Thorpe

Bob Thorpe (outfielder)

Benjamin Robert Thorpe (November 19, 1926 – October 30, 1996) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily as a right fielder, for the Boston / Milwaukee Braves (–). Born in Caryville, Florida, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed .

Thorpe's 16-year professional career began in 1946. After five seasons in minor league baseball, he had a two-game trial with the Braves early in 1951, then spent all of on the club's big-league roster during its last season in Boston. Appearing in 81 games, with 67 starts in right field, Thorpe collected 76 hits, including his only three MLB home runs, with 26 runs batted in, batting .260. Moving with the Braves to Milwaukee for 1953, he got into only 27 games and his average plummeted 98 points to .162. It was his last major-league opportunity. In MLB, he got into 110 total games played; his 83 career hits included nine doubles and three triples, as well as his three homers. He drove in 32 RBI and batted .251.

Thorpe played in the minors from 1954 through 1961. During his minor-league career, he reached double figures in home runs in 11 different seasons. He died in Waveland, Mississippi, three weeks shy of his 70th birthday.

Source: Bob Thorpe (outfielder), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Bob Thorpe (pitcher)

Robert Joseph Thorpe (June 12, 1935 – March 17, 1960) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who experienced instant success at the minor league level, had a brief and promising trial with the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball, then was driven from the game by a sore arm and elbow surgery by the end of 1959. Less than a year after his retirement from baseball, Thorpe was working as an apprentice electrician on power lines in his native city of San Diego, California, when he was accidentally electrocuted at the age of 24.

Thorpe stood tall and weighed . He signed with the Cubs in 1953 and his first two seasons in baseball, with the Stockton Ports of the Class C California League, saw him win 44 of 56 decisions. In 1954, he was named the league's Most Valuable Player after posting a 28–4 record with the California circuit's top earned run average, 2.28, in 300 innings pitched. He threw 32 complete games in 33 assignments as a starting pitcher. The performance earned him a five-level promotion to the Major League Cubs at the outset of the 1955 season.

He appeared in two MLB games for the Cubs. In his debut, he worked the final inning of a 14–1 loss at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals — but retired the Redbirds in order. In his second and final stint, Thorpe hurled the final two innings of another losing effort, this time against the Milwaukee Braves, and allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits.

Thorpe spent the rest of his career in the higher levels of the minors. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1957 Rule 5 draft, but developed a sore arm. He missed the entire 1958 season after elbow surgery and retired after only three appearances at the Class A level in 1959.

Source: Bob Thorpe (pitcher), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Thorpe

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