# Harry Glenn

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{{Short description|American baseball player (1890–1918)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Harry Glenn
|position=[Catcher](/source/Catcher)
|image=Harry Glenn.jpg
|bats=Left
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1890|6|9|mf=y}}
|birth_place=[Shelburn, Indiana](/source/Shelburn%2C_Indiana), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1918|10|12|1890|6|9}}
|death_place=[St. Paul, Minnesota](/source/St._Paul%2C_Minnesota), U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=April 14
|debutyear={{By|1915}}
|debutteam=[St. Louis Cardinals](/source/St._Louis_Cardinals)
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=May 12
|finalyear={{By|1915}}
|finalteam=[St. Louis Cardinals](/source/St._Louis_Cardinals)
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[Games played](/source/Games_played)
|stat1value=6
|stat2label=[At bat](/source/At_bat)s
|stat2value=16
|stat3label=[Hits](/source/Hit_(baseball))
|stat3value=5
|teams=
*[St. Louis Cardinals](/source/St._Louis_Cardinals) ({{By|1915}})
}}
'''Harry Melville "Husky" Glenn''' (June 9, 1890 &ndash; October 12, 1918) was an American professional [baseball](/source/baseball) player from 1910 to 1918.  He played a portion of the 1915 season in [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) as a [catcher](/source/catcher) for the [St. Louis Cardinals](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Shelburn%2C_Indiana), in 1890.<ref name=BR/>  He was drafted to serve in the military in August 1918 during [World War I](/source/World_War_I).  He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps where he began training as an aviation mechanic in [St. Paul, Minnesota](/source/St._Paul%2C_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](/source/Major_League_Baseball) players known either to have been killed or died from illness while serving in the armed forces during [World War I](/source/World_War_I).  The others were [Alex Burr](/source/Alex_Burr)‚ [Harry Chapman](/source/Harry_Chapman_(baseball)), [Larry Chappell](/source/Larry_Chappell)‚ [Eddie Grant](/source/Eddie_Grant_(baseball))‚ [Newt Halliday](/source/Newt_Halliday), [Ralph Sharman](/source/Ralph_Sharman) and [Bun Troy](/source/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](/source/List_of_baseball_players_who_died_during_their_careers)

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{baseballstats|br=g/glennha01}}

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Category:1890 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Minnesota
Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Minnesota
Category:Major League Baseball catchers
Category:St. Louis Cardinals players
Category:Baseball players from Indiana
Category:Vincennes Alices players
Category:Vincennes Hoosiers players
Category:Nashville Vols players
Category:St. Paul Apostles players
Category:St. Paul Saints (AA) players
Category:United States Army personnel of World War I
Category:American military personnel killed in World War I
Category:United States Army Signal Corps personnel
Category:Military personnel from Indiana
Category:20th-century American sportsmen

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