If you have a moment for those of our readership who use Twitter, go to the search bar and type in “Jason Thompson Tigers”. The trade is almost 40 years old (the trade occurred on May 27th, 1980) and some people are still fans of Jason Thompson and were miffed on why the Tigers traded the left-handed power-hitting first baseman. I was interested in this trade for two reasons. One, I wanted to understand the logic behind it and two, as a fan of history and comic books, I wanted to add an element from the Marvel universe.
Marvel had a series called “What If” in which they take a situation that could have been if factors had changed.