Tommy Davis

Herman Thomas "Tommy" Davis Jr. (March 21, 1939 – April 3, 2022) was an American professional baseball player and coach who appeared in Major League Baseball as a left fielder and third baseman from 1959 to 1976. Over an 18-year career he played for ten different teams, most prominently the Los Angeles Dodgers, with whom he won two National League batting titles and was a member of the 1963 World Series championship club.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Davis batted .294 with 153 home runs, 2,121 hits, and 1,052 runs batted in across 1,999 career games, and was an effective pinch hitter, hitting .307 (62-for-202) in that role. His finest season came in 1962, when he led the major leagues in batting average, hits, and runs batted in and finished third in the Most Valuable Player voting. That year his 153 RBIs broke Roy Campanella's franchise record of 142 set in 1953 and remain the Dodgers' team record. His 230 hits stand as the team record for a right-handed batter, second in franchise history only to Babe Herman's 241 in 1930, and his .346 average was the highest by a Dodgers right-handed hitter in the 20th century until Mike Piazza hit .362 in 1997. Following his playing career, Davis also worked as a coach.