2023 KTM Sponsorship Packet
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OUR HISTORY<br />
From the baseball diamond<br />
to the golf green<br />
Danny Thompson played shortstop for the Minnesota Twins for<br />
only one season before being diagnosed with leukemia at the<br />
age of 26. Refusing to let his illness get him down, he went on to<br />
play two more seasons while undergoing treatment. He lost his<br />
battle with leukemia in 1976.<br />
Danny Thompson<br />
1947 – 1976<br />
To honor Danny’s memory and support the fight against leukemia,<br />
Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew and Congressman<br />
Ralph Harding established the Danny Thompson Memorial Golf<br />
Tournament Leukemia Research Benefit. The inaugural event<br />
was held in 1977 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The guest list included<br />
President Gerald Ford, Speaker of the House Thomas “Tip” O’Neill,<br />
Mickey Mantle, and Joe DiMaggio.<br />
Harmon Killebrew lost his own battle with esophageal cancer<br />
in 2011. The tournament was renamed the Killebrew-Thompson<br />
Memorial in memoriam.<br />
Harmon Killebrew<br />
1936 – 2011
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