Jack Tompkins

Jack A. Tompkins (June 2, 1909 – October 11, 1993) was an American baseball and ice hockey player, airline executive and civic leader in Detroit, Michigan. As a high school student in Royal Oak, Michigan, he won 27 consecutive baseball games as a pitcher, still a Michigan high school record. At the University of Michigan, he was captain of the baseball and hockey teams in 1932. He worked for more than 30 years for American Airlines in Detroit and became a civic leader in the area, working to bring the Olympic Games to Detroit from the 1940s to the 1960s and founding the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament in 1965.

Tompkins was raised in Royal Oak, Michigan and graduated from Royal Oak High School in 1928. In high school Tompkins earned 16 varsity letters. He pitched four no-hit no-run games and led the baseball team in hitting as it won 33 straight games and 2 state championships. He set a state high school record with 27 consecutive wins, still the record recognized by the Michigan High School Athletic Association. He was inducted into the Royal Oak High School Hall of Fame in 1997.

In the fall of 1928, Tompkins enrolled at the University of Michigan where he was a star athlete as a pitcher in baseball and a goaltender in ice hockey. He played every minute of every game during his three years on the Wolverines hockey team and was elected captain as a senior in the 1931-1932 season. Michigan won the Big Ten Conference hockey championship in Tompkins' sophomore and junior years, and Tompkins was an All-American in his senior year. He was also named to the All-American Collegiate Hockey team on three occasions. In baseball, Tompkins was a three-year player as a pitcher. He was named captain of the Michigan baseball team in 1932, making him the first Michigan athlete to be elected captain of two different varsity sports teams in the same year. He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1982.

After graduating from Michigan, Tompkins played professional baseball for several years with a Detroit Tigers farm club and professional hockey in the International and National Leagues under contract with the Detroit Red Wings.

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