Hot Baseball Wife: Christine Glavine

When Tom Glavine turned down a $13 million option year with the Mets to return to the Braves for only $8 million, he told ESPN’s Jayson Stark that was doing it just to be closer to his family:

“My family was the reason,” Glavine said. “Had the Braves not been interested in bringing me back, I would have retired, because it was time for me to be home.”

Some observers were still baffled, but we here at UmpBump can understand this decision quite well, because Tom Glavine has a bonafide hot baseball wife.

Glavine’s second wife, Chris, who he married in 1998, not only makes it out to almost all of Tom’s games and helps raise the couple’s four children, but has also been a major supporter of “CURE Childhood Cancer” and the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research and also personally hosts an annual fundraiser/luncheon in Atlanta called “Tribute to Our Quiet Heroes,” which honors the hard work, sacrifice and dedication of the mothers of children with cancer.

We believe you will agree that Chris Glavine is a most deserving addition to the pantheon of Hot Baseball Wives.

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