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Can John Hart revive the Braves?

John Hart has been involved in baseball for more than three decades as a player, coach, manager, scout and general manager.

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John Hart has been involved in baseball for more than three decades as a player, coach, manager, scout and general manager.
By Steve Hummer
Oct 3, 2014

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Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro claimed his branch of the Hart tree in 1992, after a memorable interview in the quaint rot of old Cleveland Stadium.

“It was amazing,” Shapiro remembers now, “because (Hart) could paint a picture of the organization regardless of the setting we were in that was so vivid, so passionate and so authentic.”

This is what Hart does above all else, and what he must help do again once more for the Braves: He seeds the clouds and believes it will rain talent.

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