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DEL.ICIO.USTommy Hanson: Blood, guts and a mighty big arm
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On the first pitch of his first spring session throwing to live batters last week, Tommy Hanson tore the nail on his index finger. He looked down and saw blood, which would have served as a signal to most pitchers to stop throwing. Hanson kept throwing.
He felt sheepish - soon the bleeding was apparent to those standing around, Bobby Cox and some of his coaches among them - but he also felt he needed to impress these people. So he kept going. “One of our coaches finally cut it short,” Cox would say afterward. “But [Hanson] almost made his full five minutes.”
This tells us something about the 22-year-old considered the finest Braves pitching prospect since … dare we say Steve Avery? It tells us Hanson, who’s possessed of the requisite big arm, doesn’t mind shedding a little blood for the cause. It tells us he’s a young man in a hurry.
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By Puttin on the Foil
February 25, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this
Wow, nice blurb Mark. I’m glad to see our young men are primed and girded for the grueling baseball season ahead. I can empathize with the torture of tearing a nail, I sliced the top off of one of my nails the other day slicing up some carrots and had to go lay down and call Papa Johns for dinner. It was pure hell. Kudos to young Tommy Hanson for grinding it out, he sure has moxie!
By Uri Kirshstein
March 1, 2009 11:28 AM | Link to this
I can’t wait for the season to start so we could see Tommy Hanson in action. He is a tough man. Good article Mark.