Tom Glavine Essentials Positions: Bats: L Throws: L Weight: 175 Born: Year: 1966 in Concord, MA USA Died: in , Debut: 8/17/1987 Last Game: 8/14/2008 Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Player in 2014 by BBWAA Full Name: Thomas Michael Glavine
A huge crowd estimated at 48,000 is on hand for the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. This year’s class is unusually large and prestigious, featuring three players elected on the first ballot: 300-game winners Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine and slugger Frank Thomas, a member of the 500 home run club. Joining them are three managers who stand at #3, 4 and 5 on the all-time win list in Tony LaRussa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre. Maddux, Glavine and Cox all found their greatest success in the great Atlanta Braves teams of the late 1990s.
2014 – One year after failing to elect anyone, the BBWAA atones by giving three players their ticket to Cooperstown in this year’s Hall of Fame election. Ps Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, 300-game winners both, and 1B Frank Thomas are all elected on their first try, while 2B Craig Biggio falls only two votes short of enshrinement.
Two long-time baseball icons officially hang their spikes today, although neither played last season. Pitcher Tom Glavine, after 305 wins and two Cy Young Awards, accepts a position in the Atlanta Braves’ front office as a special assistant to team President John Schuerholz, putting an end to any desire for a comeback attempt, which would have required undergoing another arm surgery. For his part, 1B/DH Frank Thomas, nicknamed “The Big Hurt”, veteran of 19 seasons during which he hit .301 with 521 homers and 1704 RBI, announces he will not attempt a comeback either. He last played for the Oakland Athletics in 2008 but could find no takers for his services last season.
Mets left-hander Tom Glavine won his 300th career game
On July 25, 2007, two New York players reached the doorstep of career milestones. Lefty Tom Glavine of the Mets notched his 299th victory, and a few hours later, Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez clubbed his 499th home run.
Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and John Smoltz pitch on same day
December 5, 2002: The New York sign Tom Glavine to a 3yr, $35 million deal. “It’s almost surreal that it happened. I never thought I would play for someone else.” He pitched five seasons (2003-2007) for the Mets, going 61-56 one of his wins includies his 300th career game. He will return home to…
2001 – Tom Glavine and John Smoltz combine on a seven-hit shutout to blank the Astros, 1-0, in Game Two of the N.L.D.S. The only run is scored by B.J. Surhoff on a double-play grounder after a double and an error by Julio Lugo.
Nike’s ‘Chicks Dig the Long Ball’ commercial, starring Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, airs for the first time. The television ad depicts the Braves hurlers, both who have won multiple Cy Young Awards, as pitchers-who-want-to-become-worshipped-home-run-heroes after becoming frustrated over the attention being shown to Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire by Heather Locklear and a friend.