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| 1984 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Tom Glavine
Selected in fourth round
No.
69 overall by Los Angeles Kings
Born March
25, 1966
 | Position:
Center
Height: 6-0 Weight: 180
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Billerica (Mass. High School)
Birthplace: Concord, Massachusetts (USA)
Hometown:
Billerica, Massachusetts |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM |
| 1981-82 |
Billerica | Mass. H.S. |
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-- | -- |
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| 1982-83 |
Billerica | Mass. H.S. |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1983-84 |
Billerica | Mass. H.S. |
23 | 47 |
47 | 94 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Boston Bruins Carlton Award (Top E. Mass. H.S. Player): 1983-84
(Billerica)
Merrimack Valley Conference MVP: 1983-84 (Billerica)
Merrimack Valley Conference All-Star First Team: 1981-82,
1982-83, 1983-84 (Billerica)
Miscellaneous: Attended Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica,
Mass. ... Won Merrimack Valley Conference Large Division title with
Billerica in 1984. ... Had 232 points and 111 goals in his high school
career at Billerica. ... Also was outfielder/pitcher on Billerica's varsity
baseball team, leading Billerica to Division I North title and Eastern
Massachusetts championship in 1983. ... Was four-year honor roll student at
Billerica and member of National Honor Society. ... Worked as CYO volunteer
during off-seasons of his high school career and also coached youth hockey
and baseball in Billerica. ... Was presented John Carlton Memorial Trophy by
Boston Bruins general manager Harry Sinden prior to Boston's March 17, 1984,
game vs. New Jersey. |
| NHL CAREER |
| Never played in NHL. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Mohawk Valley (NAHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Major League Baseball Draft Pick: 1984 (by Atlanta Braves, No. 47
overall in Round 2)
Education: Studied management information systems at University of
Lowell during summer of 1984.
Miscellaneous: Turned down hockey scholarship at the University of
Lowell
to pursue pro baseball career. He then spent the 1984 season pitching for
Bradenton in
the Gulf Coast League and never turned back to hockey after that. ... Skated
with Boston Bruins at a practice in 1992, marking the only time he ever
practiced or played with an NHL team. ... Was guest of honor for Tom Glavine
Day in his hometown of Billerica, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1995.
Glavine's Baseball Career: Glavine is the most accomplished NHL draft
pick when it comes to career performance in another professional sport
besides hockey. A left-handed pitcher, Glavine broke into Major League
Baseball with the Atlanta Braves, who had drafted him in 1984, just two days
after he was taken in the NHL draft. Between 1984 and his big-league debut
in 1987, Glavine came up through Atlanta's minor-league system. In 1984, he
pitched for the Gulf Coast League Braves in Bradenton, Fla. (Rookie League), going 2-3 with a
3.34 ERA. The next year, Glavine moved up to the Class A South Atlantic
League and went 9-6 for Sumter. He then jumped to Double-A in 1986, and had
an 11-6 record for Atlanta's Southern League affiliate in
Greenville, S.C. By then end of the 1986 season, he had been promoted to
Atlanta's top farm team, the Richmond Braves of the International League. Glavine went 1-5 with a 5.62 ERA for Richmond in 1986, but came back the
following year to earn a regular spot in the Richmond starting rotation.
Then, during the 1987 season, he was briefly promoted to the big leagues at
age 21. During his short stint with Atlanta, he went 2-4 with a 5.54 ERA for
a Braves team that went only 69-92 and finished fifth in its division. By
1988, Glavine was ready for full-time duty in the Atlanta rotation, and he
responded with a 7-17 record for a last-place Braves team that won only 54
games. But the next year, Glavine truly began to come into his own. He went
14-8 with a 3.68 ERA for the 1989 Braves team that still finished last in
its division. He slipped back to 10-12 the following year, as the Braves
maintained their grip on the NL West cellar. Everything changed for Glavine
in 1991, however. He turned in a remarkable 20-11 record with a 2.55 ERA,
pitched in the All-Star Game, won the National League Cy Young Award, led
all NL pitchers with a .230 batting average and
helped lead the Braves to the World Series, where they lost in seven games
to the Minnesota Twins. It was the first of five World Series he would pitch
in for the Braves. In 1991, at age 25, he had established himself as a bona
fide baseball
star, and his hockey-playing days were a distant memory. Over the next
15 years, Glavine added to his baseball resume in impressive fashion. He
won 20 games in 1992 and a career-high 22 in 1993. In 1995, he was
part of Atlanta's World Series championship team, and in 1998 he went 20-6
with a 2.47 ERA to earn his second Cy Young Award. Two years later, in 2000, he won 20
games for the fifth time in his career. An eight-time All-Star, Glavine left
the Braves after the 2002 season and signed a 3-year, $35 million contract
with the New York Mets. He remained a Mets starter into the 2005 season,
entering the season at age 39 with 262 career victories and 12 career
playoff wins.
Personal: Full name is Thomas Michael Glavine. ... Older brother of Major
League Baseball player Mike Glavine. |
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SNAPSHOT '84 | | Total Selected: |
250 | | Forwards: |
142 | | Defense: |
88 | | Goaltenders: |
20 | | Major Junior: |
110 | | Tier II/Jr. B: |
16/9 | | College Players: |
23 | | High School: |
47 | | Midget: |
4 | | U.S. Junior B: |
1 |
| Canadian: |
145 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
2 | | USA Citizens: |
62 | | U.S.-Born: |
63 |
| European: |
41 |
| Reached NHL: |
102 |
| Stanley Cup: |
20 | | Hall of Fame: |
1 |
| All-Star Game: |
18 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
7 |
| Olympians: |
31 |
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