NORTH CHELMSFORD, Mass. – An old story that crawled across New England’s pubs for years involved Tom Glavine, the Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher who was born in the Boston suburb of Concord, Mass., raised in nearby Billerica, and won 305 games in the big leagues. ¶ According to folklore, shortly after Glavine was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 1984 amateur baseball draft but before he was taken in the fourth round of the NHL draft by the Los Angeles Kings, his father pulled him aside and delivered a life lesson. ¶ Fred Glavine led his 18-year-old son to the backyard, looked him square in the eye, rotated him 360 degrees and essentially corkscrewed the kid into his roots.
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