Honors
Scottish baseball team, the Edinburgh Diamond Devils, named their home "Bobby Thomson Field." It was opened by the man himself in 2003, while he was in Scotland to be inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
The UK Chapter of The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is named the Bobby Thomson Chapter.
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