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Later today Tom Glavine will face Micah Owings of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Owings was born in Gainesville, Georgia.  There has been a lot of major leaguers from the state of Georgia including a lot of pitchers.

The pitcher with the most of career wins that was born in the state of Georgia is current Detroit Tigers pitcher and Savannah native Kenny Rogers with 214 career wins.  Kevin Brown is 2nd with 211.

Here are the top 5…

Kenny Rogers - 214

Kevin Brown - 211 (from Milledgeville)

Tim Hudson - 142 (from Columbus)

Nap Rucker - 134 (from Alpharetta)

Jim Bagby - 127 (from Barnett)

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