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Glen Stewart Obituary
Baseball Almanac presents the actual word-for-word transcript from the obituary of Glen Stewart, taken from The Memphis Daily News.
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"Glen (Stewart) learned baseball on the Tennessee sandlots. His boyhood idol was Babe Ruth. Contemporary favorite is Mel Ott. Likes hunting, basketball, and football. He talks very little about anything, thus he got the nickname 'Gabby.' " - Sportswriter William B. Shubb (Oakland Oaks Baseball Website)
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GLEN W. STEWART, 84 of Memphis, former professional baseball player and manager, and retired postal worker, died of heart failure Tuesday at his home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was All-Memphis in baseball at Central High School in 1930, and was inducted into the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame for basketball. He played professional baseball for the New York Giants (1940) and Philadelphia Phillies (1943 & 1944) in the early 1940s. He also played for the Memphis Chicks. He was a player and manager for several minor league teams, and played every position except pitcher. Mr. Stewart, the widower of Dorothy D. Stewart, leaves a daughter, Gail S. Middleton of Memphis, two sons, Glen W. Stewart Jr. of Collierville and Gary E. Stewart of Memphis, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or the charity of the donor's choice. |
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Glen Stewart Obituary
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