Glen Gann "Buck" Varner (August 17, 1930 – April 29, 2000) was an American

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. The

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, a native of Hixson, Tennessee, appeared in two Major League

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for the Washington Senators during the 1952 season. Varner's Major League trial came at the end of the 1952 minor league season, when he batted .290 with four

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with Washington's Double-A farm club, the Chattanooga Lookouts. On September 19, he started in

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against the

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, and was hitless in four plate appearances, with a base on balls, against

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. Four days later, as a

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, he grounded out against venerable

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Bobo Newsom. The , Varner batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He batted .277 in six

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seasons (1948–1950; 1952–1954),

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