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Tom Glavine was selected in the fourth round of the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft by the Los Angeles Kings, but chose baseball when the Braves tabbed him with a second-round pick that same year. By 1987, Glavine was in the majors and in 1991, he led the Braves to the National League West title – a worst-to-first story for a team that finished last in 1990. Glavine was 20-11 with a 2.55 earned-run average and a league-leading nine complete games, earning the National League Cy Young Award. He helped the Braves advance to their first World Series in Atlanta, where they fell to the Twins in seven games.

Glavine’s career numbers: 305-203 with a 3.54 ERA and 2,607 strikeouts. He was named to 10 All-Star games, earned Cy Young Award votes in six seasons and won four Silver Slugger Awards as a pitcher. His 682 games started ranks 12th all-time, and his 305 victories are fourth all-time among left-handers.

Glavine was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2014.

Tony Conigliaro was about to make it big with the Red Sox. In his first three seasons with the team, Conigliaro hit .273 with 84 homers and 227 ribbies, including a league-leading 32 home runs in 1965. Conigliaro had earned himself the privilege to distinguish himself as the only teenager in MLB history to hit 25 home runs in a season, as well as the youngest player in American League history to reach 100 career home runs. But after August 18, 1967, Conigliaro would never again be the same. The Red Sox were hosting the California Angels for a game that day, and in his third at-bat of the game, Conigliaro, who was two for two, came up against Angels pitcher Jack Hamilton, he was beaned. The pitch from Hamilton struck Conigliaro on his left cheekbone, breaking it severely as well as seriously damaging his left retina. He was never the same after that and never really got his form back due to bad eyesight from being hit.

Reggie Jackson "Mr. October" was a 14 time American League All-Star, a member of five World Series championship teams and won the American League MVP Award in 1973, where he led the junior circuit in home runs, runs batted in and runs scored. After five tumultuous years in New York, Reggie moved back out west joining the California Angels. During his first season with the halos, Reggie once again led the league in home runs. Jackson finished his career back where he started, as a member of the Athletics, and when all was said and done, had accumulated 2,548 hits, 563 home runs and 1,702 runs batted in.