Tom Glavine Should Enter MLB Hall Of Fame On First Ballot

When Glavine concluded his long and storied Major League career, there was no reason to wonder if Baseball’s Hall of Fame would eventually reserve a place for him to be immortalized alongside the game’s other legendary figures.

Glavine and his longtime Braves teammate, Greg Maddux, join Frank Thomas as the most notable players who will be on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year.

It would seem to be fitting for Atlanta’s celebrated skipper to share this honor with two of the men — Glavine and Maddux — who played significant roles in the success that the Braves had in reaching the World Series five times during the 1990s.

Glavine made his Major League debut for the Braves in 1987 and spent 17 of his 22 Major League seasons as a member of Atlanta’s pitching staff.

While the Cy Young Awards and the 1995 World Series MVP honor provide tangible proof of the greatness he experienced, Glavine looks back on his career and gains as much satisfaction from the fact that he made 672 career starts before making his first trip to the disabled list at the age of 42 in 2008.