American baseball player (born 1948)
Baseball player
Glenn Redmon Infielder Born: (1948-01-11 ) January 11, 1948 (age 76) Detroit , Michigan , United StatesBatted: Right
Threw: Right
September 8, 1974, for the San Francisco Giants October 2, 1974, for the San Francisco Giants Games 7 Hits 4 Batting average .235
Glenn Vincent Redmon (born January 11, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who appeared in seven games for the San Francisco Giants in 1974 . He batted and threw right-handed.
Redmon was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the nineteenth round of the 1969 Major League Baseball Draft out of the University of Michigan where he had been a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[1] While at Michigan, he spent the summers of 1967 and 1968 playing in Sturgis, South Dakota for the Sturgis Titans of the Basin League .[2] In four seasons in Chicago's farm system, he batted .266 with 22 home runs . He was traded along with Chuck Hartenstein from the White Sox to the Giants for Skip Pitlock on February 8, 1973 .[3]
Redmon's finest season was 1974 with the Phoenix Giants when he batted .312 with six home runs and 76 runs batted in to earn a call up to San Francisco that September. He went 2-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI in his major league debut against the Atlanta Braves .[4]
References
^ Langhammer, Jay (Spring–Summer 1984). "Sigma Pi Sports" (PDF) . The Emerald of Sigma Pi . Vol. 72, no. 1. pp. 16–17. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
^ "Sturgis Baseman Returns to Basin League for 1968" . Deadwood Pioneer-Times . May 29, 1968. p. 3. Archived from the original on January 12, 2023. Retrieved January 12, 2023 .
^ "White Sox Obtain Pitlock," United Press International (UPI), Thursday, February 8, 1973. Archived October 29, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved October 26, 2020
^ "Atlanta Braves 5, San Francisco Giants 3" . Baseball-Reference.com. September 8, 1974. Archived from the original on August 19, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
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