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Batting average
  
.252

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Joe Glenn

Runs batted in
  
89

Home runs
  
5


Joe Glenn (baseball) Joe Glenn Society for American Baseball Research

Died
  
May 6, 1985, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, United States

Joseph Charles Glenn (November 19, 1908 – May 6, 1985) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees (1932–33, 1935–38), St. Louis Browns (1939) and Boston Red Sox (1940). Glenn batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

Glenn caught Babe Ruth during his last pitching game, and also caught Ted Williams in Williams' only pitching appearance: it was at Fenway Park on August 24, 1940. In an eight-season career, Glenn posted a .252 batting average with five home runs and 89 RBI in 248 games played.

Glenn died in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, at age of 76.

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