Tod Davis

{{short description|American baseball player}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Tod Davis

|position=Infielder

|image=Tod Davis 1950 (cropped).jpg

|image_size=180px

|caption=Davis in 1950

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1924|7|24|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Los Angeles

|death_date={{death date and age|1978|12|31|1924|7|24}}

|death_place=West Covina, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 27

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1949}}

|debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 15

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1951}}

|finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.233

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|teams=

• Philadelphia Athletics (1949, 1951)

}}

Thomas Oscar "Tod" Davis (July 24, 1924 – December 31, 1978) was an American professional baseball player of the 1940s and 1950s. The native of Los Angeles appeared in 42 games as an infielder and pinch hitter in Major League Baseball during the {{Baseball year|1949}} and {{Baseball year|1951}} seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics. Davis was {{convert|6|ft|2|in}} tall, weighed {{convert|190|lb}} and threw and batted right-handed.

During his trials with the Athletics, Davis collected 21 hits. His only big-league home run, hit September 5, 1949, came off Vic Raschi of the New York Yankees at Shibe Park during a 13–4 New York victory.Retrosheet [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B09051PHA1949.htm box score: 1949-09-05 (1)] The remainder of Davis' nine-year career (1943–1944; 1947–1953) was spent in the top-level Pacific Coast League. He appeared in 782 games in the PCL for both Los Angeles–based teams, the Angels and the Hollywood Stars, as well as for the Seattle Rainiers.

Davis served in the United States Army[http://baseballinwartime.com/those_who_served/those_who_served_atoz.htm Baseball in Wartime] during World War II and its aftermath, and missed the 1945–46 seasons.