Thomas Brandon Sullivan (December 19, 1906 in Nome, Alaska – August 16, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. In 1925 he appeared in his one and only major league game for the Cincinnati Reds.
He was the first of only ten MLB players born in Alaska.
Sullivan reached the big leagues at age 18 with the Cincinnati Reds. He was the second youngest player in the league that year.
Famous quotes containing the words tom and/or sullivan:
“Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)
“The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?”
—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)