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Samuel H. "Doc" Landis (August 16, 1854 – unknown) was a
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Biography

He would play for the Philadelphia Athletics and
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. He was married to Mary Ida Weidner on August 1st, 1883 and lived for a time being in Reading, PA where is continued to play baseball. They had two children together, Mary C. Landis (Allgier) 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.


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