Art Rico
Baseball player
Died when: 23 years 164 days (281 months)Star Sign: Leo
Arthur Ramon Rico (July 23, 1895 – January 3, 1919) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned two seasons (1916–17), including parts of those seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Braves.
Over his major league career, Rico, a catcher, compiled a .222 batting average with four hits in 18 at-bats.He also played in the minor leagues with the Class-B Springfield Green Sox.
After a stint aboard a battleship as a member of the United States Navy Reserve during World War I, Rico was deactivated and hoped to rejoin the Braves for the 1919 season.
He was stricken by an appendicitis early in January 1919, however, and died at the age of 23 of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix shortly after emergency surgery.
