As a freshman at Warren High School Flash Greenwood was the left fielder for Jim McGeough’s 1936 State Runner-Up baseball team.  In the state playoffs’ semi-final series against Class B West Warwick, he threw out two runners at the plate in a single contest.

Three years later, now usually batting cleanup, he hit .375 for Charlie Burdge’s Redskins, a team that captured the Class C title and then became the first Class C team to win a State Championship in any sport.

A member of the school’s 1936 Class C Championship football squad, he earned first team divisional honors in that sport in the following year.

Following World War Two, Flash starred in the Warren Twilight League and was named the league’s All Star left fielder in 1947, 1948, and 1949, batting .364, .480, and .400, respectively.  He also played for Warren’s usually victorious Little World Series teams (versus Bristol) both before and after the war.

Pictures from Hall of Fame Archives