{{short description|American baseball player (1884-1967)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Jud Daley |image=Jud Daley.jpg |width=100 |position=Outfielder |bats=Left |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1884|3|14}} |birth_place=South Coventry, Connecticut, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1967|1|26|1884|3|14}} |death_place=Gadsden, Alabama, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 19 |debutyear=1911 |debutteam=Brooklyn Dodgers |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=July 16 |finalyear=1912 |finalteam=Brooklyn Dodgers |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.250 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=1 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=20 |teams= *Brooklyn Dodgers ({{baseball year|1911}}–{{baseball year|1912}}) }} '''Judson Lawrence Daley''' (March 14, 1884 – January 26, 1967) was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Daley was 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 172 pounds.<ref name="statistics">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daleyju01.shtml "Jud Daley Statistics and History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.</ref>
==Career== Daley was born in South Coventry, Connecticut, in 1884.<ref name="statistics"/> He started his professional baseball career with the Southern Association's Shreveport Pirates in 1906. Besides one short stint in the National League, Daley played in the Southern Association until 1915. He spent the early part of his career with the Shreveport Pirates, Mobile Sea Gulls, and Montgomery Climbers.<ref name="minors">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=daley-001jud "Jud Daley Minor League Statistics & History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.</ref>
Daley did not have a batting average above .270 in a season until 1910, when he batted .298.<ref name="minors"/> He led the league in at bats that year and also finished second in hits to the future major league star, Shoeless Joe Jackson.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/leader.cgi?type=bat&id=70c034cd "1910 Southern Association Batting Leaders"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.</ref> The following season, he raised his average to .306 and finished second in hits again, this time to Del Pratt.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/leader.cgi?type=bat&id=5a3bfd47 "1911 Southern Association Batting Leaders"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.</ref> He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers late in the season, and in 19 games, he batted .231. Daley was also with the Dodgers in early 1912. He batted .256 for them before making his last MLB appearance in July.<ref name="statistics"/>
Daley then spent the next few years back in the Southern Association. He moved to the Eastern League in 1916, where he stayed until the end of his career in 1920. During his last two seasons, he also managed his team, the Waterbury Nattatucks/Brasscos.<ref name="minors"/>
In 1,679 minor league games over 15 years, Daley batted .279 and had 1,710 hits.<ref name="minors"/> Later in life, he worked for Goodyear.<ref>[http://www.thedeadballera.com/DeathCertificates/Certicicates_D/Daley.Jud.DC.pdf "Jud Daley's Death Certificate"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329043553/http://thedeadballera.com/DeathCertificates/Certicicates_D/Daley.Jud.DC.pdf |date=2012-03-29 }}. thedeadballera.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.</ref> He died in Gadsden, Alabama, in 1967.<ref name="statistics"/>
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