Doug Glanville
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Douglas Metunwa Glanville
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 2", Weight 170 lb.
- School University of Pennsylvania
- Debut June 9, 1996
- Born August 25, 1970 in Hackensack, NJ USA
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Doug Glanville is that rarest of creatures, an Ivy Leaguer who majored in engineering and was also successful in the major leagues. His senior engineering project at the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania was a transportation-feasibility study for a proposed baseball stadium on the site of the Philadelphia post office at 30th Street.
Doug Glanville had a short appearance, as himself, in the 2001 movie Summer Catch starring Freddie Prinz Jr.
As of the summer of 2005, he was a managing partner for a real estate company in Chicago, as well as a member of the Board of Overseers for Penn's College of Engineering.
The two most similar players through 2006, according to the similarity scores method, are Vic Davalillo and Milt Thompson.
- His parents were born in Trinidad.
- Led NL in stolen base percentage in 1999.
- Ranked third in sacrifices among non-pitchers in 2000 with 12.
- Hit 7 of his 14 home runs of 2001 in the month of May. That month, he also had a .509 slugging percentage.
- Hit a game-winning RBI triple in extra innings to win game 3 of the 2003 NLCS.
