By Trevor Morgan

Modesto’s new Pioneer Baseball League team, recently named the Glow Riders, announced six-time Gold Glove award winner and former San Francisco Giant J.T. Snow as its manager last week. The Glow Riders, an expansion team, will compete in the same league as Oakland’s Ballers.

Snow played first base for most of his career and won the premier position-player award six consecutive times from 1995 to 2000 as both a California Angel and a Giant.

His career slashes (batting average, on base percentage and slugging) were .268/.357/.427.

Snow was initially drafted by the New York Yankees in 1992 but was traded to the Angels the next season. He played for the Angels from 1993 to 1996. He was traded in 1997 to the Giants, where he played until 2005. Snow’s tenure with the Giants

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