95-year-old Don Lang, one of the few remaining baseball players from the 1930s, passed away on September 1.
Lang spent two seasons in the major leagues, played a decade apart—he first played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1938, hitting .260 in 21 games. 10 years later, in 1948, he played in 117 games for the St. Louis Cardinals and batted .269.
In between those two big league stints, Lang served in the Pacific theatre of World War II with the United State Army Air Forces. He also played in the minors, posting a .346 average for the Columbus Reds Birds in 1947.
At the time of his death, he was one of the oldest living former big league ballplayers.
