Tom Fortier writes: > OK, now I know this doesn't sound like hockey stuff, but I was forced >into this by my roommate. He was wondering if anyone on this list would know >if Tom Glavine, star pitcher of the Atlanta Braves, went to school somewhere >in New England. If he did, where did he go, and did he also play hockey? For >some reason, my roommate believes he went to college in New England somewhere, >and that he also played college hockey. Tommy Glavine never played college hockey or baseball. He was recruited to play both at Lowell, but then he was drafted by the LA Kings in the NHL draft (4th round, if I remember correctly) and the Atlanta Braves in the MLB draft (2nd round; ditto) in the summer of 1994 after graduating from high school, and he signed with Atlanta. I am almost positive that he never attended college, though I can't be certain he didn't take some classes in the offseason. Tommy played both sports at Billerica (Mass.) High School. He was selected as the best high school hockey player in the state of Mass. his senior year, and he and Jon Morris of Chelmsford HS were 1-2 in the state in scoring with 91 and 85 points. Both were recruited to play at Lowell, and Morris would become the leading scorer in Hockey East history, playing for the Chiefs from 1984-88. Glavine would have gone to Lowell too if he had not taken the Braves offer - I often wonder what that Lowell team would have been like with both of these guys. Morris's 177 career points (HE games) may never be broken...because it was set during a time when HE teams played as many as 34 league games in a season, as compared to today's 24. I suspect that Paul Kariya (63 pts in 24 games in 1992-93) would have smashed Morris's record if he'd stayed around, but players that good rarely do stay around. Glavine is a year older than me, and his teams had some memorable battles with my alma mater, Central Catholic HS of Lawrence. The reason I bring this up is that my alma mater tended to come out on top :-) - especially when Glavine was a senior. First his Billerica hockey team had a 28-game regular season unbeaten streak snapped by Central in a 5-4 win at Billerica's Hallenborg Rink. Then when baseball season rolled around, Central slammed Glavine for 8 runs in a wild second inning that got the future Cy Young winner yanked in front of a dozen major league scouts. I have this vivid memory of Glavine fidgeting around on the mound while his coach tried to drag time out to get his reliever warm. As Glavine stared down at his shoes, our coach (Dave Bettencourt, who went on to coach UNH) told us, "Take a good look...that's not going to happen to him often." As usual, his crystal ball was quite clear. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93