- Len Rice
Leonard Oliver Rice (
September 2 ,1918 -June 13 ,1992 ) was aMajor League Baseball catcher who played for theCincinnati Reds (1944) and theChicago Cubs (1945). A native ofLead, South Dakota , he stood 6'0" and weighed 175 lbs.Rice is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during
World War II . He may be most well-known for being a reserve catcher on the last Chicago Cubs team to win aNational League pennant (1945). That was his best season, as he got into 32 games and hit .232 (23-for-99) with 7runs batted in and 10runs scored . He had played in just 10 games for the Reds the year before, going 0-for-4, then was drafted by the Cubs from the Reds in the 1944 rule V draft (November 1).He died at the age of 73 in
Sonora, California .External links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ricele01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pricel101.htm Retrosheet]
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