Tom Daly (catcher)
Tom Daly | |
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![]() Daly in 1918 | |
Catcher | |
Born: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada | December 12, 1891|
Died: November 7, 1946 Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 54)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 23, 1913, for the Chicago White Sox | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 27, 1921, for the Chicago Cubs | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .239 |
Home runs | 0 |
Runs batted in | 55 |
Teams | |
Thomas Daniel Daly (December 12, 1891 – November 7, 1946) was a Canadian Major League Baseball player and coach. He was a catcher for the Chicago White Sox (1913–15), Cleveland Indians (1916) and Chicago Cubs (1918–21).
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Daly played eight seasons in the major leagues, appearing in 244 games, and had 540 at-bats, 49 runs, 129 hits, 17 doubles, 3 triples, 55 RBI, 5 stolen bases, 25 walks, a .239 batting average, .274 on-base percentage, a .281 slugging percentage, 152 total bases and 8 sacrifice hits.
After his major league career, he managed the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League for the early part of the 1932 season. He was a Boston Red Sox coach for 14 seasons (1933–46), the longest consecutive-year coaching tenure in Bosox history.
Daly died in Medford, Massachusetts at the age of 54 from colon cancer.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia online publication, The Film Reference Library of the Toronto International Film]
- Tom Daly at Find a Grave
- 1891 births
- 1946 deaths
- Baseball people from New Brunswick
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- Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts
- Deaths from colorectal cancer in the United States
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