Gene Glynn

Who is Gene Glynn?

Eugene Patrick Glynn is an American minor league baseball manager and retired second baseman, and a former coach with four Major League teams. He stood 5'10" tall, weighed 155 pounds and threw and batted right-handed.

Glynn graduated from Waseca High School and Mankato State University, where he starred in both baseball and basketball. He was Minnesota's first "Mr. Basketball" in 1975. He was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Montreal Expos in 1979 and played seven seasons in Montreal's farm system, including parts of three campaigns at the Class AAA level. His rookie season, in the 1979 New York-Penn League, was his best, with 36 runs batted in in 64 games played, 71 runs scored, and a batting average of .296. Glynn managed five seasons in Short Season-A baseball, beginning in the New York-Penn League. His 1990 Spokane Indians, a San Diego Padres affiliate, won the Northwest League championship. Overall, he won 190 games and lost 191 as a minor league skipper.

Bob Gebhard, the scout who signed Glynn for the Expos in 1979, was the first general manager in the history of the Colorado Rockies, and he brought Glynn into the Rockie system in 1992. By 1994, Glynn was on the coaching staff of the Major League Rockies, serving for five full seasons, through 1998. He then returned to the Expos for one season as an MLB coach, then spent longer tenures as the third-base coach of the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants.