Marvin Freeman is a former Major League Baseball

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 pitcher who played from to for the Philadelphia Phillies

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, Atlanta Braves

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 and Colorado Rockies

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. He worked as both a starting pitcher and a reliever in his career. He is currently an assistant baseball coach at Rich Central High School

Rich Central High School

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 in Olympia Fields, Illinois

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. Freeman won his first career decision (second start) on the day his first child was born.

Nicknamed "Starvin' Marvin" for 180 pounds on a 6-6 frame, Freeman worked at Chicago's John Norwood Lee Co. making concert-quality violin bows. Freeman played collegiately at Jackson State University

Jackson State University

Jackson State University is a historically black university founded in 1877 in Natchez, MS by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York. The Society moved the school to Jackson in 1882, renaming it Jackson College, and developed its present campus in 1902. It became a state supported...

. He now has 2 children. His son, Justin Freeman is a promising candidate to follow him in the major leagues.

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