When he first went college at Grambling State, Ralph Garr wasn’t on a baseball scholarship and he had to take a summer job to pay for school.
“It so happened that summer, I made the baseball team and I was granted a scholarship to go to Grambling,” said Garr. “And the rest of it is history.”
Garr went on to play 13 years in the major leagues – eight of them with the Braves. He led the National League in hitting in 1974 and made the All-Star team that year.
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