My One And Only

TOM GLAVINE
Mets Pitcher
ONE CAREER STEAL: May 13, 1991

IN 21 SEASONS, Glavine has had 1,256 at bats and reached base 328 times. And in his fourth full season with Atlanta , against pitcher Shawn Boskie and catcher Damon Berryhill of the Cubs , he stole a base. "Boskie wasn't paying attention, and I kept looking at the third base coach," says Glavine , who was at second after an RBI double. "It was a no-lose situation. If I got thrown out, no big deal—you've got the leadoff hitter coming up next inning.... I remember thinking, If I'm ever going to get one, now's the time." The now 41-year-old made it safely and also had three sacrifice bunts and got a complete-game win that day. "All I needed was to sell some popcorn and I would have done it all," he says, adding, "I feel I'm going to get another [stolen base] this year. Pitchers have been forewarned."

TOBY HALL
White Sox Catcher
ONE CAREER TRIPLE: July 27, 2002

THE SEVEN-YEAR veteran admits he's not fleet of foot, which is why he was surprised to find himself standing on third and breathing hard after hitting a ball down the leftfield line against the Yankees while with Tampa Bay . "All that was going through my mind was, I don't know how these guys do it, because that's a long way. I was dead tired," Hall says. "It clanked off the bullpen bench in Tropicana Field and ricocheted into centerfield. It was supposed to be a double but the leftfielder chased after it, and when it hit the bench it went into no-man's-land. I was coasting into second, saw it and said, 'Wow, that means I have to go to third.'" Hall refused his teammates' offer of a souvenir—"They wanted to give me the base," he says—but he's grateful for the three-bagger. "You want at least a one on the back of your baseball card under every category."

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