Major league baseball player in 1915. Catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Served in the Signal Corp., WW I
Cause of death: Influenza
Glenn, a left-handed-hitting catcher from Shelburn, Ind., played six games for the St. Louis Cardinals at the beginning of the 1915 season, going 5-for-16 for a .313 average. He finished the year with the St. Paul Saints, where he hit .296 over 63 games. He remained with St. Paul through August 1918, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Glenn served as an aviation mechanic at the Signal Corps' Aviation Mechanics Training School in St. Paul, Minn. In October 1918, he developed a bad cold which developed into pneumonia. He passed away on October 12, at the age of 28.
Major league baseball player in 1915. Catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Served in the Signal Corp., WW I
Cause of death: Influenza
Glenn, a left-handed-hitting catcher from Shelburn, Ind., played six games for the St. Louis Cardinals at the beginning of the 1915 season, going 5-for-16 for a .313 average. He finished the year with the St. Paul Saints, where he hit .296 over 63 games. He remained with St. Paul through August 1918, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Glenn served as an aviation mechanic at the Signal Corps' Aviation Mechanics Training School in St. Paul, Minn. In October 1918, he developed a bad cold which developed into pneumonia. He passed away on October 12, at the age of 28.
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