Tom Daly (catcher)

For the baseball second baseman, see Tom Daly (infielder).

Tom Daly
Daly in 1918
Catcher
Born: (1891-12-12)December 12, 1891 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: November 7, 1946(1946-11-07) (aged 54) Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
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
Chicago White Sox (1913–1915) Cleveland Indians (1916) Chicago Cubs (1918–1921)

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

• List of Major League Baseball players from Canada

External links

• Career statistics 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