Harry Melville "Husky" Glenn (June 9, 1890 – October 12, 1918) was a professional

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player from 1910 to 1918. He played a portion of the 1915 season in

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as a

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for the St. Louis Cardinals. He also played eight seasons in the minor leagues including five seasons with the St. Paul Saints from 1914 to 1918. Glenn was born in Shelburn, Indiana, in 1890. He was drafted to serve in the military in August 1918. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps where he began training as an aviation mechanic in

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. He developed pneumonia and died in a St. Paul Hospital in October 1918. He is buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana. Glenn was one of eight

players known either to have been killed or died from illness while serving in the armed forces during

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. The others were Alex Burr‚ Harry Chapman, Larry Chappell‚ Eddie Grant‚ Newt Halliday,

Ralph Sharman Ralph Edward Sharman (April 11, 1895 – May 24, 1918), nicknamed "Bally", was a professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the 1917 Philadelphia Athletics. Career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sharman was a ...

and

Bun Troy Robert Gustave "Bun" Troy (August 27, 1888 – October 7, 1918) was a German-born professional baseball pitcher who was killed in action while fighting against German forces in World War I. Troy was a sergeant with the "Blue Ridge" Division of t ...

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