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Braves' Smoltz proud to be amongst baseball's 'elite'
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Former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz speaks to the press in the gallery at the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday in Cooperstown, N.Y. Smoltz was recently elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2015. - photo by Heather Ainsworth
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — When John Smoltz plopped down in a director's chair inside the Baseball Hall of Fame and stared at all the bronze plaques on the walls, the moment was both magical and a bit overwhelming. "This is a pretty incredible place. Some elite people," the 47-year-old Smoltz, a first-ballot Hall of Famer, said Tuesday after his pre-induction tour.
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