finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1945 right 13 june 1992 sonora , california lead , south dakota 1944 september 29 .223 0 7 catcher chicago cubs batting average home runs runs batted in april 26 2 september 1918 len rice
 cincinnati reds len rice right
len rice

leonard oliver rice -lrb- september 2 , 1918 -- june 13 , 1992 -rrb- was an american major league baseball catcher who played for the cincinnati reds -lrb- 1944 -rrb- and the chicago cubs -lrb- 1945 -rrb- .
a native of lead , south dakota , he stood tall and weighed .
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 a national league pennant -lrb- 1945 -rrb- .
that was his best season , as he got into 32 games and hit .232 -lrb- 23-for-99 -rrb- with 7 runs batted in and 10 runs 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 -lrb- november 1 -rrb- .
he died at the age of 73 in sonora , california .
