Rob Thomson has quietly turned around the Phillies’ season. If he can end the franchise’s playoff drought, people might stop confusing him with other guys.
PHILADELPHIA — Rob Thomson has spent 15 years in a major league uniform, but the letters never stop. Some fans still think he is Robby Thompson, an All-Star second baseman in the 1980s and 1990s, and they send him old baseball cards to autograph. Thomson mails them back, unsigned, if they come with a self-addressed stamped envelope.