Doug Flynn played in Major League Baseball from 1975 to 1985 as an infielder for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos and the Detroit Tigers.
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22 Facts About Doug Flynn
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Doug Flynn went to the University of Kentucky on a combination baseball-basketball scholarship.
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Doug Flynn saw semi-regular action early in the 1976 season due to a back injury to Joe Morgan.
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Doug Flynn ended up appearing in 93 games for the "Big Red Machine", as they became affectionately called, and batted.
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Doug Flynn's playing time increased substantially upon his arrival in New York City, even though he batted just.
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Doug Flynn's first home run as a Met was a three-run shot off future Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry on May 1,1979.
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Doug Flynn began to emerge as one of the better fielding second basemen in the National League.
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Doug Flynn signed a new five-year contract before the 1981 season, but that did not prevent it from being his last season as a Met.
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Doug Flynn held the starting second base job with the Expos through 1984.
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Doug Flynn retired from baseball when the Tigers released him in Spring training the following season.
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Doug Flynn's father, Bobby, was a second baseman in the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization in 1948, and later played semi-pro ball with the Lexington Hustlers.
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Doug Flynn's mother played second base in fast-pitch softball for years.
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Doug Flynn then headed up the state of Kentucky's anti-drug program.
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Doug Flynn's wife, Olga, is a former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader whom he was set up with by Pete Rose.
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Doug Flynn has been a banking officer for Central Bank, a locally owned, independent bank, since 1998.
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In 1981, Doug Flynn began singing country songs at Cody's, a club at Sixth Avenue and 16th Street in Manhattan on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
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When baseball went on strike in 1981, Doug Flynn traveled briefly with the Oak Ridge Boys and sang on tour with them.
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Doug Flynn still loves to sing and pairs up with former Reds teammate Johnny Bench at their successful golf tournament every year on cabaret night.
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Doug Flynn still attends both New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds reunion events including serving as the Chairman of the Reds Fantasy Camp and guest for the Mets camp.
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Doug Flynn appears periodically on Reds' TV broadcasts on Fox Sports Ohio hosting feature segments.
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Doug Flynn appears on Kentucky Wildcats baseball games carried on the SEC Network and SEC Network Plus.
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Since 2015, Doug Flynn has hosted Kentucky Life, a weekly half-hour magazine program on Kentucky Educational Television.
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