Dave Melton

{{short description|American baseball player (1928-2008)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Dave Melton

|position=Outfielder

|image=Dave Melton 1953.jpg

|width=180px

|caption=Melton, circa 1953

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1928|10|3}}

|birth_place=Pampa, Texas, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|2008|10|23|1928|10|3}}

|death_place=Cupertino, California, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 17

|debutyear=1956

|debutteam=Kansas City Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 11

|finalyear=1958

|finalteam=Kansas City Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.111

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=0

|teams=

• Kansas City Athletics (1956; 1958)

}}David Olin Melton (October 3, 1928 – October 23, 2008) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He played for the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball during the {{Baseball year|1956}} and {{Baseball year|1958}} seasons. Melton threw and batted right-handed, stood {{convert|6|ft|abbr=off}} tall and weighed {{convert|180|lb|abbr=off}}.

Born in Pampa, Texas, he attended high school in Coronado, California, and played college baseball at Stanford University. His minor league career (1950; 1953–1959; 1962) was spent almost entirely on the West Coast, and he was a popular member of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. He batted .299 for the 1955 Seals and reached career highs in home runs (19), runs batted in (116) and hits (184).

At the Major League level, Melton played in only 12 games, batted nine times, and made one hit, a single off Frank Lary of the Detroit Tigers in his first MLB at bat on April 17, 1956.[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1956/B04170DET1956.htm Retrosheet]