Facts:   - finalteam: cleveland indians    - finalyear: 1946    - death place: fort worth , texas    - statlabel: batting average home runs runs batted in    - position: second baseman    - statvalue: .264 10 93    - throws: right    - debutteam: chicago cubs    - bats: right    - debutdate: june 23    - death date: 19 january 2003      - birth date: 7 october 1915    - finaldate: september 22    - name: dutch meyer    - birth place: waco , texas    - debutyear: 1937   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of l. d. meyer .
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lambert daniel `` little dutch '' meyer -lrb- october 7 , 1915 -- january 19 , 2003 -rrb- was an american college football player and professional baseball player and manager , as well as the nephew of the famous and similarly named texas christian university football coach leo `` dutch '' meyer .a native of waco , texas , meyer played baseball and football at tcu in the 1930s .on the gridiron , he was the favorite target of future hall of fame quarterback sammy baugh .he kicked the winning field goal in the famous 3-2 tcu victory over lsu in the 1936 sugar bowl .the next year , he scored all the points in tcu 's 16-6 victory over marquette in the cotton bowl classic .young dutch took up a career in baseball upon graduating tcu .a right-handed batter and thrower , he stood tall and weighed .he split his first pro season , 1937 , between the knoxville smokies of the class a1 southern association and the chicago cubs of major league baseball .on june 23 , he made his major league debut as a pinch runner for the cubs .the detroit tigers bought his contract in 1940 , and he spent the next three seasons bouncing between detroit and the minor league buffalo bisons .in 1942 , meyer left baseball to serve in world war ii , joining the u.s. army air corps .when he was discharged in 1945 , he rejoined the tigers who traded him to the cleveland indians .that season was dutch 's best , as he led the indians in hits with 153 with an average of .292 .after the 1947 season , he was traded to the new york yankees , who demoted him to the minors .after a few more seasons playing in the minors , he became a manager , making stops in gladewater , texas , dallas , tulsa , oklahoma and fayetteville , north carolina .while managing in tulsa in 1955 , meyer got into a serious argument with a young roger maris .maris was in a terrible slump and meyer devised a series of drills to help his youthful right fielder , but maris refused to do them .meyer kicked maris off the team , and was subsequently fired .six years...