Tom Glavine is known as a retired American professional baseball pitcher. He is most famous for leading the Atlanta Braves to a 1995 World Series title over the Cleveland Indians.
Thomas Michael Glavine was born on March 25, 1966, in Concord, Massachusetts.
Tom Glavine made his pro debut in the major leagues in 1987. He played for the Atlanta Braves until 2002. It was in 1991 that he displayed his best performance after a terrible 17-loss performance in 1988. In 1991, 20 winning games with 2.55 run average made him the ace in the Atlanta Braves. He also won the National League Cy Young Award. The season was a breakthrough for the Braves and led them to the World Series. He had lifted the position of the Atlanta Braves to the position of one of the best teams with a great pitching staff and stable hit squad.
Glavine, Maddux, and Smoltz joined hands to form one of the best pitching rotations in baseball history. He and his mates won several awards during this time from 1991 to 1998. From 2003 to 2007 he played for New York Mets. His performance in 2003 was poor and disappointing. He bounced back into action in 2004. In 2005, he won the National League Pitcher of the Month. In 2007 he returned to Atlanta Braves and finally retired in 2010 with 304 wins to his record.
In July 2020, Tom Glavine made an appearance on Tiki and Tierney to speak about the trust between players and owners, “At the end of the day, nobody’s been in more of an adversarial relationship with the commissioner than, say, I was and some of my contemporaries during the 1994 strike."
Tom Glavine got married to Carrie Ann Dobbins in 1992. After five years of marriage, the couple filed for divorce in 1997. The relationship ended but they had a child Amber Nicole. He then married Christine Glavine in 1988, and they raised four kids named Mason, Jonathan, Peyton, and Kienan.
Jonathan was the son of his wife from her first marriage and Kienan is their adopted child. Kienan was adopted from a restaurant waitress whom Tom had met on a casual chat at a restaurant. He wanted a baby girl, but Tom confesses that when he knew that he could do a closed adoption, the matter that Kienan was a boy had waned away.
When Tom Glavine was about to retire from the sport of baseball, he contributed to Volunteers of America's program to help homeless children get to school with full school supplies. The program put 7000 children to schools and was known as 'Operation Backpack.' An extra 3000 backpacks were delivered to Hurricane Katrina victims. He has also participated in programs that helped children afflicted with cancer. The work was done in collaboration with Rally Foundation, and the target was to raise $300,000 for the cause by selling Vineyard Vines Rally autographed ties.
He funded CURE Childhood Cancer organization by releasing a wine ' Cabernet Glavingnon' which provided funds for research and treatment for the patients.
| Net Worth 2021: | 80 million |
