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Endings and Beginnings
Created: 6/27/2005 11:40:10 AM
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Dr. Seuss once said, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
 Doug Glanville (Penn '93) is beaming after a 14-year professional baseball career.
The Teaneck, N.J. native retired from Major League Baseball before Saturday's Phillies vs. Red Sox matchup in Philadelphia, Pa. He retired as a member of the Phillies organization after a unique one-day Minor League contract was engineered by the club's General Manager, Ed Wade, so that Glanville could retire where it all started -- in the city where he was first noticed, on the field for the Penn Quakers.
After being selected 12th overall in the 1991 draft, Glanville made his Major League debut with the Chicago Cubs in 1996. The outfielder spent two years with the Cubbies before being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. Their starting centerfielder from 1998 to 2002, Glanville's best season came in 1999 -- he collected over 200 hits en route to a .325 batting average.
He spent the last two seasons with the Texas Rangers, Cubs, and again with the Phillies. He was a key reserve in the Cubs' 2003 playoff run. Glanville tried to latch on with the New York Yankees this season, but was released in spring training -- and he was not interested in returning to the minor leagues.
Always known as one of the more interesting, intelligent, and quotable players in the game, Glanville has not committed to his plan of action in retired life.
He is a managing partner for a real estate company in Chicago -- Metropolitan Development, as well as a member of the Board of Overseers for Penn's College of Engineering.
Yet Glanville could remain in the game, perhaps in the front office of the Phillies -- with fellow Penn grad, Phillies president David Montgomery. He has also dabbled in journalism, penning articles for ESPN.com while on a trip to South Africa with one of his former professors.
Glanville will be married in October.
Without him, four active Leaguers in the Majors remain -- Brad Ausmus of the Houston Astros, Mike Remlinger of the Chicago Cubs, Mark DeRosa and Chris Young of the Texas Rangers.
Glanville's Retirement -- Philadelphia Inquirer (Registration Req'd)
Phillies' Announcement of Glanville's Retirement
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