Tommy Davis
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"Herman Thomas Davis, Jr." is an United States/American former Major League Baseball left fielder and third baseman. He played from 1959-1976 for ten different teams, but he is best known for his years with the Los Angeles Dodgers. During an 18-year baseball career, Davis batting average/batted .294 with 153 home runs, 2,121 Hit (baseball)/hits and 1,052 Run batted in/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 of Frenchy Bordagaray. In , he finished third in the MLB Most Valuable Player Award/MVP voting after leading the major leagues in batting average, hit (baseball)/hits and run batted in/runs batted in. Davis' 153 RBIs in that season broke Roy Campanella's 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 Herman's 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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