Tommy Davis

Herman Thomas Davis, Jr. (born March 21, 1939) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a left fielder and third baseman from 1959 to 1976 for ten different teams, most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers where he was a two-time National League batting champion.During an 18-year baseball career, Davis batted .294 with 153 home runs, 2,121 hits and 1,052 runs batted in. He was also one of the most proficient pinch-hitters in baseball history with a .320 batting average (63-for-197) – the highest in major league history upon his retirement, breaking the .312 mark held by Frenchy Bordagaray. In , he finished third in the MVP voting after leading the major leagues in batting average, hits and runs batted in. Davis 153 RBIs in that season broke Roy Campanellas team record of 142 in and remain the franchise record; his 230 hits are the team record for a right-handed batter (second most in franchise history behind only Babe Hermans 241 in ), and his .346 average was the highest by a Dodger right-handed hitter in the 20th century until it was broken by Mike Piazza in 1997.

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