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Lafayette Fresco Thompson (June 6, 1902 in Centreville, Alabama - November 20, 1968 in Fullerton, California) was a Major League Baseball second baseman and executive.

Thompson, second baseman for the New York Giants in 1927, was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies when the Giants obtained Rogers Hornsby. After his playing days, he became an assistant farm director for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Thompson moved up the executive ladder, and survived the front-office purge that followed Branch Rickey's departure in 1951. Shortly before his death, he was named the Dodgers' executive vice president and general manager.

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