Leonidas Lee

Outfielder, Baseball Player

1860 – 1912

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Who was Leonidas Lee?

Leonidas Pyrrhus Lee, born as Leonidas Pyrrhus Funkhouser was an American professional player who played one season in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the 1877 St. Louis Brown Stockings. He made his major league debut for the Brown Stockings on July 17, 1877, and in four games with the club, he collected five hits, including a double, in 18 at bats for a .278 batting average. A graduate of Princeton University, Lee died at the age of 51 in Hendersonville, North Carolina of Myocarditis, and is interred at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.

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Born
Dec 13, 1860
St. Louis
Profession
Education
  • Princeton University
Died
Jun 11, 1912
Hendersonville

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on July 23, 2013

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