Major League Baseball Player. A Jersey City, New Jersey native, he pitched for 3 teams over a 6 year Major League career. His first professional engagement was with Chambersburg of the Blue Ridge League in 1916. Moving on to the Baltimore Orioles of the International League later on in the season, he went 1-7. 1917 saw him win 25 games for the Orioles, his impressive record catching the eye of the New York Yankees. Jack Dunn, Orioles owner sold Thormahlen, Broadway Bill Lamar and Chick Fewster to New York for $20,000 cash. The portside throwing Thormahlen won 28 games over the next three seasons with the Yanks. An injury that took him out of the rotation in the later half of the 1920 season helped cost the Yankees the pennant that year. On December 15, 1920, he was traded by the Yanks along with Del Pratt, Muddy Ruel, and Sammy Vick to Boston for Waite Hoyt, Harry Harper, Wally Schang, and Mike McNally. The trade proved to be a one sided deal for New York as Hoyt became one of the mainstays of the Yankee rotations for the next ten seasons, and Schang became the primary catcher for New York for the next five years. Thormahlen won only one of eight decisions for Boston in 1921 and was released to Minneapolis. He pitched for Kansas City in 1923 and Dallas in 1924 before making it back to the Majors for one last go of it in 1925 with the Brooklyn Robins (Dodgers), where he failed to win in three tries. He finished the 1925 season with Rochester. He continued to pitch in the minors, making stops with Montreal, Toronto, and his hometown Jersey City team. He retired from pro-ball in 1933. After his career, he moved to California and worked in a bank as a clerk. he died at the age of 58 from colon cancer. Over the course of his career, Hank Thormahlen accrued a lifetime won-loss record of 29-30 in 104 league games with a 3.33 Earned Run Average and 2 Saves.