Red Davis

{{short description|American baseball player (1915-2002)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{for-multi|the American football player|Red Davis (American football)|the basketball player|Red Davis (basketball)}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Red Davis | position = Third baseman | image = Red Davis 1961.jpg | bats = Right | throws = Right | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|7|15}} | birth_place = Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|4|26|1915|7|15}} | death_place = Laurel, Mississippi, U.S. | debutleague = MLB | debutdate = September 9 | debutyear = {{Baseball year|1941}} | debutteam = New York Giants | finalleague = MLB | finaldate = September 28 |finalyear={{Baseball year|1941}} |finalteam=New York Giants | statleague = MLB | stat1label = Batting average | stat1value=.214 | stat2label=Home runs | stat2value=0 | stat3label=Runs batted in | stat3value=5 | stat4label=Hits | stat4value=15 | teams = *New York Giants (1941) }}

'''John Humphrey "Red" Davis''' (July 15, 1915 – April 26, 2002) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball and a longtime manager in the minor leagues. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Davis threw and batted right-handed, stood {{convert|5|ft|11|in|cm|abbr=on}} tall and weighed {{convert|172|lb|kg}}.

Davis' major league career consisted of 21 games and 70 at bats during September 1941 as a member of the New York Giants. He collected 15 hits, with three doubles and five runs batted in, for a batting average of .214.

Davis made a more indelible imprint as a minor league skipper, logging 27 years (1949–72; 1974–76) in the farm systems of the Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates, and working at all levels of the minors. He managed at Triple-A with the Minneapolis Millers, Phoenix/Tacoma Giants, Buffalo Bisons, Portland Beavers, Charleston Charlies and Oklahoma City 89ers. His teams won 1,993 games, losing 1,927 (.508) with four league championships.

He died in Laurel, Mississippi, at age 86.

== References ==

* Johnson, Lloyd, ed., ''The Minor League Register.'' Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1994.

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