Tom Jordan (baseball)

Thomas Jefferson Jordan (September 5, 1919 – August 26, 2019) was an American professional baseball player, a catcher who appeared in 39 major league games over three seasons with the Chicago White Sox (1944; 1946), Cleveland Indians (1946), and the St. Louis Browns (1948).

Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, Jordan stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).

He spent the entire 1946 campaign in the major leagues, starting with the White Sox before being traded to Cleveland for fellow catcher Frankie Hayes on July 5.

As a member of the Indians, on August 25, he hit his only major league home run, a solo shot at Fenway Park off 20-game-winner Boo Ferriss in a 2–1 Boston Red Sox win.

A son, Tom Jr., was winning pitcher of the championship game of the 1956 Little League World Series.