Tom Glavine
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"Thomas Michael "Tom" Glavine" is an American retired professional baseball player. A pitcher, Glavine played in Major League Baseball for the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets.

With 164 victories during the 1990s, Glavine earned the second highest amounts of win (baseball)/wins as a pitcher in the National League, second only to teammate Greg Maddux's 176. He was a five-time 20-game winner and two-time Cy Young Award winner, and one of only 24 pitchers (and just 6 left-handers) in major league history to earn 300 win club/300 career wins.

On January 8, 2014, it was announced that he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in his first year of eligibility with 91.9%.

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As an athlete, name recognition can carry a lot of weight. To me, it's kind of a no-brainer, if you're able to get behind a cause and people will get involved.

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Someone taught him right. He gets it.

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It's somewhat frightening that what he took was so easily found out.

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As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.

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I was pleased with how I pitched and what I was doing, but the results aren't what I wanted, ... You make at least one bad pitch a game and mine was to Matheny.

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