{{Short description|American baseball player (1890–1918)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Harry Glenn |position=Catcher |image=Harry Glenn.jpg |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1890|6|9|mf=y}} |birth_place=Shelburn, Indiana, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1918|10|12|1890|6|9}} |death_place=St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=April 14 |debutyear={{By|1915}} |debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=May 12 |finalyear={{By|1915}} |finalteam=St. Louis Cardinals |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Games played |stat1value=6 |stat2label=At bats |stat2value=16 |stat3label=Hits |stat3value=5 |teams= *St. Louis Cardinals ({{By|1915}}) }} '''Harry Melville "Husky" Glenn''' (June 9, 1890 – October 12, 1918) was an American professional baseball player from 1910 to 1918. He played a portion of the 1915 season in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.<ref name="BR">{{Cite web |title=Harry Glenn Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/glennha01.shtml |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> He also played eight seasons in the minor leagues including five seasons with the St. Paul Saints from 1914 to 1918.<ref name="Minor">{{Cite web |title=Harry Glenn Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=glenn-001har |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=St. Paul Doesn't Look Good|newspaper=Sporting Life|date=March 31, 1917|page=8|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1917/VOL_69_NO_05/SL6905008.pdf|access-date=June 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912090953/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1917/VOL_69_NO_05/SL6905008.pdf|archive-date=September 12, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Glenn was born in Shelburn, Indiana, in 1890.<ref name=BR/> He was drafted to serve in the military in August 1918 during World War I. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps where he began training as an aviation mechanic in St. Paul, Minnesota. He developed pneumonia and died in a St. Paul Hospital in October 1918.<ref>{{cite web |title=Harry Glenn |url=https://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/biographies/glenn_harry.html |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=McKenna |first=Brian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm68623962 |title=Early exits: the premature endings of baseball careers |date=2007 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5858-9 |location=Lanham, Md |pages=85 |oclc=ocm68623962}}</ref> He is buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Glenn Baseball Stats |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=glennha01 |access-date=2018-10-29 |website=Baseball Almanac}}</ref>
Glenn was one of eight Major League Baseball players known either to have been killed or died from illness while serving in the armed forces during World War I. The others were Alex Burr‚ Harry Chapman, Larry Chappell‚ Eddie Grant‚ Newt Halliday, Ralph Sharman and Bun Troy.<ref>{{cite web |title=World War I Deaths |url=https://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/world_war_i.html |accessdate=June 8, 2014 |website=Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice}}</ref>
==See also== * List of baseball players who died during their careers
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