Ken Landenberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKen Landenberger
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1928
Place of Birth: Lyndhurst, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 28-Jul-1960
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Ken Landenberger
- Kenneth Henry Landenberger (July 29, 1928 – July 28, 1960) was an American professional baseball player and manager.
- Landenbeger played 11 seasons (1948–58) of minor league baseball and managed in the minors for three full seasons and part of a fourth.
- In his only Major League Baseball service, he appeared in two games as a first baseman and pinch hitter over a nine-day period for the 1952 Chicago White Sox, batted five times, and had one single — off Dick Littlefield of the St.
- Louis Browns in his final MLB plate appearance.Listed at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and 200 lb (91 kg), Landenberger batted and threw left-handed.
- He graduated from Charles F.
- Brush High School in his native Lyndhurst, Ohio, and attended Ohio University.
- He batted an even .300 in 1,389 games played (with 1,512 hits) during his minor league career, spent mostly in the White Sox system.
- He batted over .300 seven times and four times hit 25 or more home runs.
- But after his 1952 trial, he never returned to the Majors. Landenberger became a minor league manager in 1957 and joined the Cleveland Indians' system the following year, managing teams at the Class C and D levels.
- He began the 1960 campaign as skipper of the Selma Cloverleafs of the Alabama–Florida League, but he was sent home in mid-July after a medical examination revealed that he was suffering from acute leukemia.
- He entered the Cleveland Clinic, but died on July 28, the day before his 32nd birthday, from a cerebral hemorrhage and the effects of leukemia.
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