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Photo Located Samuel "Doc" Landis 1882 Baltimore Orioles / Philadelphia Athletics
I've located a photo that is almost certainly Doc Landis of the 1882 American Association loss leader.
His picture appeared in one of the SABR Virtual panels I watched recently and I contacted the presenter. He indicated that he found the photo on Ancestry.
The photo features Landis with the 1886 Port Henry, NY team. I found a box score of a Landis pitching for the squad in July 1886, and since the upstate New York and Vermont circuit was filled with Philadelphia pros and semi-pros, I am quite certain that it is Landis. He was let go from Providence in the Eastern League when the club folded in early June 1886, so circumstantially it fits.
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