13 Facts About Ron Gant

Ron Gant was born in Victoria, Texas to George Ron Gant, a chemistry professor, and Alice Hardeman, a special education teacher.

Ron Gant was recruited heavily to play college baseball for such schools as Texas and Oklahoma but turned down scholarship offers to go pro after high school.

Ron Gant was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the fourth round of the 1983 MLB draft, and joined the Braves in 1987 as a September call-up, after winning the Bill Lucas Award as the Braves' Minor League Player of the Year in 1986.

Ron Gant collected 22 hits in 83 at bats, including two home runs.

In 1992, Gant made his last World Series appearance, where he got one double in eight at-bats, and the Braves lost again, this time in six games to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Related searches

On September 15,1993, during a nationally televised game on ESPN against the Cincinnati Reds, Ron Gant hit a game-winning walk-off home run off Rob Dibble to give the Braves a come from behind victory.

Ron Gant had 13 stolen bases and 107 runs scored, with 27 doubles and two triples, in 134 hits.

Ron Gant set the lowest RBI total ever by a player with 25 or more homers.

Ron Gant had 243 stolen bases and 1,080 runs scored in 1,832 games.

Ron Gant averaged 20 home runs, 63 RBIs, and 15 stolen bases a year.

Ron Gant worked as an analyst on SportSouth during Braves games and on the MLB Network.

In 1992, Ron Gant was involved in a bar fight in Georgia with Connie Mack IV, the great-grandson of Hall of Famer Connie Mack.

In February 2005, Ron Gant was involved in a fatal car accident when his sport utility vehicle collided with a pickup truck in Fulton County, Georgia, killing the truck's driver.