Len Kahny

Leonard John Kahny

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 155 lb.
• High School Hughes Center High School

• Born June 25, 1911 in Cincinnati, OH USA
• Died November 19, 2014 in Middletown, OH USA

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Biographical Information

Shortstop Len Kahny played minor league baseball from 1934 to 1940.

In his second season, he hit .295 with 11 home runs and 12 triples for the Mount Airy Reds. With the Hazleton Red Sox in 1938, he batted a career-high .315 with 134 hits in 126 games. Overall, he played 815 games and hit .278 with 799 hits and 27 home runs.

At age 98, he retired as a volunteer driver for American Red Cross after 22 years. The Cincinnati Reds honored him in 2011, upon his 100th birthday.

He lived to be 103 years old and was surely one of only a handful of early-to-mid 1930s players still alive at the time of his passing.

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