finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1952 right 12 september 1999 oakland , california oakland , california 1952 september 12 .221 1 6 catcher cincinnati reds batting average home runs runs batted in april 20 13 march 1921 joe rossi -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 cincinnati reds joe rossi right
joe rossi -lrb- baseball -rrb-

joseph anthony rossi -lrb- march 13 , 1921 -- september 12 , 1999 -rrb- was a professional baseball player .
he played one season in major league baseball for the cincinnati reds in 1952 , primarily as a catcher .
listed at , 205 lb , rossi batted and threw right-handed .
he was born in oakland , california .
in his lone major league season , rossi served as the primary backup to reds ' starting catcher andy seminick .
he appeared in 55 games , hitting .221 -lrb- 32-for-145 -rrb- with one triple and one home run , driving in six runs and scoring 14 times while stealing a base .
rossi also spent 14 years in the minor leagues between 1941 and 1956 , also managing the spokane indians of the northwest league in his last baseball season .
rossi died in oakland , california at the age of 77 .
