Undeniable Ed Glynn Facts

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

1) Got a save in his first Metly appearance.

2) Once went on the disabled list with foot fungus.

3) Presented with a hot-dog steamer tray bearing No. 48 prior to the May 25, 1980 game.

4) Had a 10-year career.

5) Traded to the Indians in 1980, bought back from the Indians in 1984 but never reappeared with the Mets.

6) Discussed on Crane Pool Forum, 6/12/07

[Guest Edgy DC]

7) Spent of eight of his nine big-league seasons splitting time in the minors.

8) Once claimed to have gotten in trouble as a fan/vendor by paying so much attention to a game that he handed a patron a hot dog bun with just mustard on it.

[Guest cooby]

Why was I thinking he was a catcher?

[Guest Edgy DC]

9) He undeniably was not a catcher.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Pitched for the Tidewater Tides as late as 1990.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Amazin. He was drafted in 1971!

We gotta get him in here for a talk.

[Guest sharpie]

Is usually one of the players I get in the Song Parody Contest. I pass on him every time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ahhh.. hot dog!

Wella, wella, well I just got into Shea today
Same place that I earned my pay
Selling food in section 304
Tigers took me in the draft
My ERA, five and a half!
Now I'm where the offense cannot score

Something 'bout this team is wrong
No more Seaver, no more Kong
But I've got a job and a house out in Bay Shore
A favorite son, I'm such a smash
They're calling me The Flushing Flash
And I'll never sell a hot dog any more

Now my fastball's gone I don't know what to do
The Mets just traded me right out the door
And if I'm ever traded back I know one thing for sure
I'm gonna take the field in Andy Hassler's 44

I sold hot dogs at seventeen
Returned a man to Shea's sweet green
Though few New Yorkers darkened Grant's Tomb's door
But Flushing town, I loved it all
Beneath the sign that said "U-haul"
So I pitched on, always hangin' round for more

Now my fastball's gone I don't know what to do
The Mets just traded me right out the door
And if I'm ever traded back I know one thing for sure
I'm gonna take the field in Andy Hassler's 44

Muni Stadium, dump of dumps
Cleveland fans they must be chumps
But I soldiered on and hoped for something more
You'll never take my Metly pride
I'll take my chances as a Tide
I guess I'm just a Shea guy at my core

I guess I'm just a Shea guy at my core!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

11) Ed Glynn inspires poetry

12) Ed Glynn can end a Met losing streak

[G-Fafif]

13) Rhymes with win.

[Guest cooby]

I was probably thinking of Ed Hearn

[Guest Edgy DC]

14) Dated Anthony's mother back in the day.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Edgy, that song is ...brilliant! Better than the Zep version, for sure!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

15) Was all we had to give up to pry Dominick Bullinger away from the Indians in 1981.

[Guest iramets]

16) Starting pitcher on the All-Ed Mets team (we're short on outfielders)

SP Glynn, Lynch,
RP Bauta, Nunez
1B Kranepool, Bouchee
2B Alfonzo
SS Bressoud
3B Charles
C Hearn

[Guest Edgy DC]

No, Glynn would be the reliever and Lynch the starter.

Yost would be in the dugout. Gy DC would be the fan.

[seawolf17]

And you'd have to put Ed Kranepool in the outfield, because if you have two first basemen, it's going to get confusing on pickoffs.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And you could put Ed Coleman in the broadcast booth.

[metirish]

17) Was born in Flushing NY

18 ) You can sponsor his page for $5

http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/glynned01.shtml

19 ) Pitched for the St.Lucie legends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lucie_Legends

[Guest Edgy DC]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Edgy, that song is ...brilliant! Better than the Zep version, for sure!

Better than Zep. That's what I keep telling people.

[Guest Edgy DC]

20) Ed Glynn played for both the St. Lucie Legends (1989) and the San Bernardino Pride (1990) of the Senior Professional Baseball Association.

< My post total now matches my zip code.

[Willets Point]

My ZIP code starts with zero so I'll never have a match.

[Guest AG/DC]

Cool Ed Glynn memory posted at UMDB:

Mike French

May 9, 2008

The Flushing Flash, what a great person. I met the Flash at Queens College back in the early 80's. I was on the baseball team. Eddie use to go there to workout during the winter time with Don Cooper (White Sox pitching coach)

Omar Minaya

(Mets GM), Roy Smith (former Asst GM and player), Larry Rothschild (Cubs pitching coach) and Neil Allen. The Flash was always the life of the party. I started hanging out with him and became good friends. I lost contact with Eddie in the early 90's after he moved to Virginia Beach. Eddie if you ever read this, you were a great person and friend; we all miss you.