Batting average .200 Role Baseball Player Name Jody Lansford | Runs batted in 5 Home runs 1 Date drafted 1979 | |
Joseph Dale Lansford (born January 15, 1961) is a former first basemen in Major League Baseball who played in 25 games for the San Diego Padres during the 1982 and 1983 seasons. He is the younger brother of Carney Lansford.
Lansford was selected 14th overall in the 1979 amateur draft. He made his first Major League appearance on July 31, 1982.
In 1978 as a member of the Anchorage Glacier Pilots Lansford hit a then record distance home run for Mulcahy Stadium, which landed on the 10 yard line of the football field beyond the left field fence.
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