Doc Landis


Samuel H. "Doc" Landis was an American Major League Baseball player who played pitcher in.

Biography

Landis would play for the Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles. He was married to Mary Ida Weidner on August 1, 1883, and lived for a time in Reading, Pennsylvania where he continued to play baseball. They had two children together, Mary C. Landis and Floyd Wesley Landis. Doc and Mary Ida would divorce around 1890. After baseball he was employed as a railroad foreman
Doc's son Floyd was also a baseball player and an actor in vaudeville, using the stage name of Patsy Flanagan.