:Tom Daly (catcher)

{{Short description|Canadian baseball player (1891–1946)}}

{{For|the baseball second baseman|Tom Daly (infielder)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Tom Daly

|position=Catcher

|image=Tom D. Daly in 1918 (cropped).jpg

|caption = Daly in 1918

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1891|12|12|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

|death_date={{death date and age|1946|11|7|1891|12|12}}

|death_place=Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 23

|debutyear=1913

|debutteam=Chicago White Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 27

|finalyear=1921

|finalteam=Chicago Cubs

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.239

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=55

|teams=

• Chicago White Sox ({{baseball year|1913}}–{{baseball year|1915}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{baseball year|1916}})
• Chicago Cubs ({{baseball year|1918}}–{{baseball year|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.