Leonidas Lee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Baseball player
Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1860
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 11-Jun-1912
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Leonidas Lee
- Leonidas Pyrrhus Lee, born as Leonidas Pyrrhus Funkhouser (December 13, 1860 – June 11, 1912) 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.
- His father, Robert Funkhouser, was a successful St.
- Louis businessman.
- A graduate of Princeton University, Lee played on both the school's baseball and football team.
- He later became a doctor.
- 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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