“It’s been a wonderful career, one I wouldn’t trade with anyone. It doesn’t seem possible I’ve been full time in darts for 25 years. Darters are the best people in the world,’’ said the St. Johnsbury, Vt., native, “and it is because of them I continued my career in darts.’’

Mr. Remick, who opened the 301 Dart Shop in Holyoke in 1977 and became the founding president of the Western Massachusetts Darting Association that same year, died Nov. 2 at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center from amyloidosis, a disease that affects the body’s internal organs and tissues. Considered an ambassador and caretaker of the game and affectionately dubbed Western Massachusetts’ “Father of Darts,’’ he was 58.

“I met Glenn back in the ’70s after a mutual friend introduced me to darts and we wound up throwing at Ye Ol’ Watering Hole in Northampton,’’ recalled his friend Gordon Swift of Florence. “When Glenn started the Western Mass. Darting Association, he had a team out of Greenfield and I was with a team from Northampton. It just grew from there and we started going to darts tournaments all over Massachusetts and Connecticut.

“He fell in love with the game of darts and it became his life’s passion,’’ added Swift, who is planning a darts tournament in Mr. Remick’s memory for which a time and date will be announced in the near future.

Mr. Remick, a resident of Foristell, Mo., at the time of his death, saw the Western Massachusetts group grow from those two pubs and 16 members to 1,100 members, 202 teams, and 237 pubs in less than five years.

In 1980, he founded the New England Darts Tournament Organization, directing the largest tournaments in the Northeast, and in 1983 he was captain of a select US team that toured England for two weeks and challenged English teams.

He was elected captain of the US World Cup Team and led it to an unprecedented second-place finish in Brisbane, Australia, in 1985.

“I first met Glenn when I was new to the sport and I was playing in a tournament in Cambridge around 1974,’’ recalled Dave Kelly of Goffstown, N.H. “I had made the top eight on Saturday and my opponent the next day was Glenn, and we’ve been close ever since. I wound up winning the tournament and that night, I went out to dinner with Glenn and his wife, Gloria.’’

Kelly, a former professional and international darts player who made the semifinals of the World Masters Tournament in London in 1991 - the best-ever finish by an American - said Mr. Remick’s influence was widespread.

“He would promote darts tournaments and add his own touches. They were always well run, the prize money was always guaranteed, and he followed up on all the little things,’’ said Kelly. “The sport has lost a good friend and a pioneer. There were no walls around Glenn. He always worked closely with other national darts associations.’’

Prior to his founding of the American Darters Association, which he served as president and chief executive until his passing, Mr. Remick, a former construction welder, served on the board of directors and was president of the American Darts Organization of Anaheim, Calif., and was also on the board of the National Dart Association of Indianapolis.

Mr. Remick gained the sponsorship of Anheuser-Busch brewers to get the darters’ association started and the organization now includes 40 franchises that organize competitions in 30 states through the American Dart League, the association’s principal beneficiary.

“Selling the idea that a dart league is going to promote beer sales is not that tough of a job,’’ Mr. Remick said in a 1997 interview. “Dart players have a tendency to drink a beer every now and then, and it’s one of the few sports you can play and consume alcohol at the same time.’’

Mr. Remick moved to Missouri from Belchertown 19 years ago when his association’s headquarters were established in St. Louis.

The darters’ association “was his baby. He started it from the ground up,’’ said Mr. Remick’s son, Karl of St. Charles, Mo., who is the group’s general manager. “He wanted the sport of darts to become as popular as other American sports with television exposure, although it never happened to the extent he had envisioned. But the ADA has maintained several sponsorships, including some Fortune 500 companies and it is also the only darters organization in the United States that certifies professionals in the sport.’’

It is estimated that 18.5 million Americans play the game.

A 1969 graduate of Greenfield High who attended Greenfield Community College, Mr. Remick liked to brew his own beer and educate his friends about the process. He also rode his motorcycle across the country.

Mr. Remick met his wife, Gloria (Deneault) on a blind date when both resided in Greenfield. They were married for 34 years. “My mom helped run tournaments, she kept the books, and she worked behind the counter at the dart shop,’’ said his son. “She was always involved.’’

A celebration of Mr. Remick’s life will be held today at Stefaninas Restaurant in Wentzville, Mo.

In addition to his son and wife, Mr. Remick leaves another son, Mark of Foristell, Mo.; a daughter, Sarah Coyne of Clarksville, Tenn.; his father, Glenn Sr. of Greenfield; a sister, Glennise of Greenfield; and a brother, Erik of Hau’ula, Hawaii.