Braves' late-inning star: Timothy Miller

Each word impeccably formed, and inflated extra-large by a tenor’s bellows.

Wait for it. Here it comes. The final four words, building one on another, until the last one erupts from some extra organ inside Timothy Miller and insists upon working its way up your spine like an electrical charge.

My…hooome…sweeeeeet…HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME.

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The son of 20-year Army man turned Baptist preacher, a Morehouse man through and through (Class of 2003, and currently an adjunct professor of voice and music), Miller has always been fond of tradition. Now he is making his own, on a diamond instead of an operatic stage.

When Miller was one of eight performers the Atlanta Opera sent over to the Braves to try out for the job in 2010, what he won was the largest audience for which he’d ever perform.

He may or may not tempt a baseball fan to check out the opera, but Miller is going to class up the joint one way or another.

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