finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1976 right brooklyn , new york 1959 october 2 .294 153 1,052 left fielder / designated hitter kansas city royals batting average home runs runs batted in september 22 21 march 1939 tommy davis 1958.jpeg tommy davis
 los angeles dodgers tommy davis right
tommy davis

herman thomas `` tommy '' davis , jr. -lrb- born march 21 , 1939 -rrb- is an 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 when he was a two-time national league batting champion .
during an 18-year baseball career , davis batted .294 with 153 home runs , 2,121 hits and 1,052 runs batted in .
he was also one of the most proficient pinch-hitters in baseball history with a .320 batting average -lrb- 63-for-197 -rrb- -- the highest in major league history upon his retirement , breaking the .312 mark of frenchy bordagaray .
in , he finished third in the mvp voting after leading the major leagues in batting average , hits and 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 -lrb- second most in franchise history behind only babe herman 's 241 in -rrb- , 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 .
