IAL Hall of Fame: Tom Glavine

 

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Tom Glavine

Pitcher

inducted in 2011

Tom Glavine had a pretty unexciting start in the Illowa APBA League.  Winning just two games in his first years, I’m not sure anyone paid much attention to him.  After a ten-win season in his third season in 1990, his trade value was as high it would ever get so it seemed.  So Chicago Champion management traded him for an aging Kirk Gibson to the Twin City Thunderchickens.  After that he never looked back. 

After a mediocre 7-9 season, Glavine put together a string of 12 seasons of double digit wins (after a season of injuries in 2004, he won 10 or more for three more years).  That first year in 1996, he showed his talent winning 17 with a 2.96 ERA and struck out 219.  Glavine was a workhorse. For 14 out of 15 years, he threw at least 210 innings for Twin City explaining why he’s in the top ten in so many pitching categories. 

Glavine’s best season was arguably 1999.  That was the year everything just came together for the Twin City Thunderchickens.  Glavine’s amazing performance was almost overshadowed by teammate Mark McGwire’s record breaking 70 homeruns but that year, he simply couldn’t lose.  With a record of 21-7 and a 3.23, he showed why Thunderchicken management had already deemed him “untradeable”.  By the end of the year, Glavine had not only helped the team to their first 100 win season under their current manager’s reign but also brought home a league championship.

After 19 years with the team, Tom Glavine retired a Thunderchicken in 2009.  He will forever epitomize what it means to be part of that team. 

 

Glavine’s accomplishments

  • tied for 3rd all-time in wins with 247
  • 5th in strikeouts with 2797
  • third in shutouts with 36
  • third in games started with 582
  • fourth in complete games with 148
  • third in innings pitched with 4231 2/3
  • 12 years in a row with 10 wins or more
  • World Series ring in 1999

 

YEAR CLUB G GS CG IP H R ER BB SO W L Sv ShO ERA
1988 CHAMPS 16 0 0 36 1/3 46 20 19 20 30 1 0 0 0 4.71
1989 CHAMPS 39 0 0 98 1/3 130 70 68 33 46 1 1 4 0 6.22
1990 CHAMPS 29 29 4 180 175 94 88 61 89 10 7 0 1 4.40
1991 TCHIX 48 18 5 157 1/3 225 101 92 47 114 7 9 0 1 5.26
1992 TCHIX 34 34 15 246 2/3 164 88 81 79 219 17 10 0 3 2.96
1993 TCHIX 33 33 9 225 184 96 88 86 177 14 13 0 3 3.52
1994 TCHIX 36 36 7 239 193 109 104 88 143 15 12 0 2 3.92
1995 TCHIX 36 36 4 210 2/3 203 114 113 80 127 10 15 0 0 4.83
1996 TCHIX 33 33 9 224 180 111 103 81 130 13 12 0 2 4.14
1997 TCHIX 30 30 14 220 186 120 113 90 145 11 13 0 1 4.62
1998 TCHIX 32 32 10 235 190 101 94 66 150 16 11 0 3 3.60
1999 TCHIX 31 31 10 228 2/3 139 91 82 89 200 21 7 0 4 3.23
2000 TCHIX 34 34 7 219 207 141 125 78 155 11 15 0 1 5.14
2001 TCHIX 33 33 11 240 2/3 201 128 115 69 183 15 12 0 3 4.30
2002 TCHIX 32 32 5 216 168 104 92 73 136 10 10 0 1 3.83
2003 TCHIX 33 33 4 224 2/3 176 117 105 94 159 14 10 0 1 4.21
2004 TCHIX 38 0 0 95 117 58 55 44 57 0 0 6 0 5.21
2005 TCHIX 33 33 6 212 178 101 93 67 133 15 10 0 3 3.95
2006 TCHIX 32 32 7 211 1/3 122 76 76 86 116 18 5 0 4 3.24
2007 TCHIX 27 27 9 186 135 65 64 63 130 14 7 0 1 3.10
2008 TCHIX 30 30 8 200 215 119 112 66 81 8 16 0 2 5.04
2009 TCHIX 24 16 4 126 143 78 69 52 77 6 7 1 0 4.93
22 Totals 713 582 148 4231 2/3 3677 2102 1951 1512 2797 247 202 11 36 4.15

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