Doc Landis


Samuel H. "Doc" Landis was a Major League Baseball player who played pitcher in. He would play for the Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles. 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 and Floyd Wesley Landis. Doc and Mary Ida would divorce around 1890. After baseball he was employed as a railroad foreman, in a printing shop and as a timber dealer.
He died in the township of Richland in Bucks County PA on September 17, 1920.
Doc's son Floyd was also a baseball player and an actor on Vaudeville, using the stage name of Patsy Flanagan.