Portrait of Del Rice, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Bowman series. Printed on back: "Del Rice. Catcher, St. Louis Cardinals. Born: Portsmouth, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1922. Height: 6-2. Weight: 195. Bats: right. Throws: right. Caught 92 games in 1949. Hit .236. Del started in organized baseball in 1941 with Williamson of the Mountain State League. Spent 1943 and 1944 at the Cards' Rochester farm. Then moved up to the parent club where he has remained. Del's best batting averages were in his first 2 years with the Cards. Hit .261 in rookie year (1945); .273, in 1946. No. 125 in the 1950 series of baseball picture cards. [Copyright] 1950 Bowman Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa., U.S.A. Picture Card Collectors Club, 5-star Bowman series."
