Tom Daly (catcher)
Thomas Daniel Daly was a Canadian Major League Baseball player and coach. He was a catcher for the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, helping the Cubs win the 1918 National League pennant.
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, the longest consecutive-year coaching tenure in Bosox history.
Daly died in Medford, Massachusetts at the age of 54 from colon cancer.
