Born in Crockett, Texas, Landrum threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet, 111⁄2 inches (1.8m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). He attended Texas A&M University and began his professional baseball career at age 24. In his brief MLB trial, Landrum was hitless in six at bats with one run batted in, and played errorless ball in field the field over 111⁄3innings.[2]
Landrum later became a player-manager in the minors in the late 1940s, and then forged a long career as a scout for three major-league organizations. He died at age 70 in Beaumont, Texas, in 1983.
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