STATISTICS & HISTORY
Delbert “Del” Rice was a three-sport star at Portsmouth, Ohio High School, playing football, basketball and baseball . Rice was signed by the St.Louis Browns to a professional baseball contract right out of high school. Rice played both professional baseball and basketball for a number of year in the early 1940’s, but it was obvious that that his future career was in baseball. Rice played for 17 seasons as a catcher in the major leagues.
| DEL RICE | Height: | 6:02 | Weight: | 190 | 190 | College: | None | |||
| Delbert W. Rice Jr. | Born: | Oct 27, 1922 | Died: Jan 26, 1983 | Hometown: | Portsmouth, Oh. | |||||
| Played Major League Baseball | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG |
| 1941-42 | Portsmouth Bark Low EngineersIndep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Rochester Eber Seagrams | Indep | ||||||||
| 1943-45 | U.S. Army | Military Service | ||||||||
| 1943-44 | Rochester Pros | Indep | ||||||||
| 1944-45 | Rochester Pros | Indep | 12 | 46 | 11 | 103 | 8.6 | |||
| 1945-46 | Rochester | NBL | 11 | 6 | 22 | 2.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 11 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 2.0 | |||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1943-44 | Rochester | WBT | 1 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||||
| DEL RICE | Height: | 6:02 | Weight: | 190 | College: | None | |||||
| Delbert W. Rice | Born: | Oct 27, 1922 | Died: Jan 26, 1983 | Hometown: | Portsmouth, OH. | ||||||
| l | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1942-43 | Rochester Eber- Seagrams | Indep | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Rochester Pros | Indep | |||||||||
| 1944-45 | Rochester Pros | Indep | 12 | 46 | 11 | 103 | 8.6 | ||||
| 1945-46 | Rochester | NBL | 11 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 2.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 11 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 2.0 | ||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1943-44 | Rochester | WBT | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||||