1990 was a year to brag about
Saturday, November 5, 2005
It was while Glenn Braggs was a Cincinnati Red that the wife of his agent turned to her husband at an En Vogue concert and said, "I think we need to introduce Glenn to this young lady."
What is it they say about a woman's intuition?
"My agent called me the next day and said, 'We just met your (wife-to-be),' " said Braggs, laughing at the memory. "I said, 'Yeah, whatever.' I mean, how could you take something like that seriously? They were always trying to fix me up."
But, this time, it worked. They got Braggs "fixed up" but good with the young lady named Cindy, a singer in En Vogue.
Can you say: "Marriage, four kids and living happily ever after in California?" As serendipity goes, only a story of such improbability could out-rank this one:
On June 9, 1990, Braggs and his Brewers teammate, Bob Sebra, were traded to the first-place Reds from last-place Milwaukee.
Talk about dying and going to heaven ...
"I couldn't believe it," Braggs said. "These guys (the 1990 Reds) were hanging out together, going out, everybody getting along so well in the clubhouse despite all the diverse personalities, and, oh man, that pitching, that bullpen, that clutch hitting and defense. I watched the White Sox win the World Series (two weeks ago), and I thought, 'Hey, there we are!' They reminded me of us. So did the Red Sox last year. Again, all those diverse personalities meshing for a world championship."
The 1990 wire-to-wire world champion Reds swept their foe in four straight games in the World Series, just as the White Sox swept the Astros. The 1990 Reds are having a reunion today and Sunday in Blue Ash.
Braggs played two additional years in Cincinnati after the world championship season. He then played four years in Japan. He turned 43 last month, Oct. 17. He is a now a full-time dad and family man (kids ages 11, 7, 6, 1) who dabbles part-time in real estate. He sees former teammate Eric Davis around Los Angeles occasionally and exchanges Christmas cards with Hal Morris, but otherwise doesn't see much of his teammates.
"I can't wait to see those guys (this weekend)," Braggs said in a telephone call Wednesday from his home in California.
So, there you have it, the answer to the 1990s-era, Cincinnati Reds trivia question: Whatever happened to Glenn Braggs, the man so strong he once swung at a pitch and missed ... and the bat snapped?
"Do you remember that?" asked an incredulous Joe Nuxhall last Wednesday on the Reds' Hot Stove League show on WLW-AM (700). Nuxie had thought he'd seen everything in his 61 years of professional baseball. But he'd never seen a bat break like that before, or since.
"It was great being a Red," Braggs said. "I can't believe the response when I've come back to Cincinnati. I came back in 1999 for an autograph show, and I was surprised by the adoration. I was taken aback. I wasn't a great player, by any means. I was a part-time player, a platoon guy.
"But it's a tremendous feeling to be received like that. It sort of overwhelms you. I guess that's the way it is when you're a world champion."
Source: http://news.enquirer.com/
It was while Glenn Braggs was a Cincinnati Red that the wife of his agent turned to her husband at an En Vogue concert and said, "I think we need to introduce Glenn to this young lady."
What is it they say about a woman's intuition?
"My agent called me the next day and said, 'We just met your (wife-to-be),' " said Braggs, laughing at the memory. "I said, 'Yeah, whatever.' I mean, how could you take something like that seriously? They were always trying to fix me up."
But, this time, it worked. They got Braggs "fixed up" but good with the young lady named Cindy, a singer in En Vogue.
Can you say: "Marriage, four kids and living happily ever after in California?" As serendipity goes, only a story of such improbability could out-rank this one:
On June 9, 1990, Braggs and his Brewers teammate, Bob Sebra, were traded to the first-place Reds from last-place Milwaukee.
Talk about dying and going to heaven ...
"I couldn't believe it," Braggs said. "These guys (the 1990 Reds) were hanging out together, going out, everybody getting along so well in the clubhouse despite all the diverse personalities, and, oh man, that pitching, that bullpen, that clutch hitting and defense. I watched the White Sox win the World Series (two weeks ago), and I thought, 'Hey, there we are!' They reminded me of us. So did the Red Sox last year. Again, all those diverse personalities meshing for a world championship."
The 1990 wire-to-wire world champion Reds swept their foe in four straight games in the World Series, just as the White Sox swept the Astros. The 1990 Reds are having a reunion today and Sunday in Blue Ash.
Braggs played two additional years in Cincinnati after the world championship season. He then played four years in Japan. He turned 43 last month, Oct. 17. He is a now a full-time dad and family man (kids ages 11, 7, 6, 1) who dabbles part-time in real estate. He sees former teammate Eric Davis around Los Angeles occasionally and exchanges Christmas cards with Hal Morris, but otherwise doesn't see much of his teammates.
"I can't wait to see those guys (this weekend)," Braggs said in a telephone call Wednesday from his home in California.
So, there you have it, the answer to the 1990s-era, Cincinnati Reds trivia question: Whatever happened to Glenn Braggs, the man so strong he once swung at a pitch and missed ... and the bat snapped?
"Do you remember that?" asked an incredulous Joe Nuxhall last Wednesday on the Reds' Hot Stove League show on WLW-AM (700). Nuxie had thought he'd seen everything in his 61 years of professional baseball. But he'd never seen a bat break like that before, or since.
"It was great being a Red," Braggs said. "I can't believe the response when I've come back to Cincinnati. I came back in 1999 for an autograph show, and I was surprised by the adoration. I was taken aback. I wasn't a great player, by any means. I was a part-time player, a platoon guy.
"But it's a tremendous feeling to be received like that. It sort of overwhelms you. I guess that's the way it is when you're a world champion."
Source: http://news.enquirer.com/
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