# Tom Means

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Not to be confused with [Thomas Means](/source/Thomas_Means).

**Thomas Means** (birthdate unknown) was a [Negro leagues](/source/Negro_league_baseball) [pitcher](/source/Pitcher) for several years before the founding of the first [Negro National League](/source/Negro_National_League_(1920-1931)).

Means shows up on teams lists for the [Chicago Unions](/source/Chicago_Unions) and [Chicago Union Giants](/source/Leland_Giants) from 1900 to 1904,[1] and then again in 1908.

He played for at least one season for the [St. Paul Colored Gophers](/source/St._Paul_Colored_Gophers), in 1907.

He played with some popular players of the day, including [Clarence Lytle](/source/Clarence_Lytle), [Home Run Johnson](/source/Home_Run_Johnson), [Mike Moore](/source/Henry_W._Moore), [Johnny Davis](/source/John_Barton_Davis), [William Binga](/source/William_Binga), and [Sherman Barton](/source/Sherman_Barton).

## References

1. ["Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910](https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdOGxTTXJvRVNWRmc)

1. ["St. Paul Gophers Base Ball Club" The Appeal, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 31, 1907, Page 3, Columns 3 to 5](https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdWno4Tms5b3hpU00)

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