1967
JIM LANDIS   OF

Jim Landis began the 1967 season in Houston, and then went to Detroit in June, playing 25 games with the Tigers filling in for Al Kaline, who had broken his finger jamming his bat into the bat rack. Once the Tigers released him in late August, the Red Sox scooped him up in hopes that he could fill the void when Tony Conigliaro was lost for the season as a result of a tragic beaning ...

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