Virgil Davis

Name Note: Name presented as Spud Davis in some sources

Position: Catcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-1, 197lb (185cm, 89kg)

Born: December 20, 1904 in Birmingham, AL us

Died: August 14, 1984 in Birmingham, AL

Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL

High School: Gulf Coast Military Academy (Gulfport, MS)

Debut: April 30, 1928 (Age 23-132d, 6,733rd in major league history)
vs. CIN 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 5, 1945 (Age 40-259d)
vs. BRO 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1928 season

Full Name: Virgil Lawrence Davis

Nicknames: Spud

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1934 World Series

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

22.3

4255

1312

.308

388

RBI

647

OBP

.369

SLG

.430

OPS

.799

OPS+

110

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1940 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1940 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 16	PIT	@	STL	W,6-4	GS	28	6.0	1	1	0	2	0
2	2	Apr 22	PIT		CHC	W,9-5	GS	12	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
3	6 (3)	Apr 26	PIT		STL	W,10-4	GS	28	6.0	5	1	0	6	0
4	7	Apr 27	PIT	@	CIN	L,0-3	CG	34	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
5	8	Apr 28	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-8	CG	38	8.0	9	1	1	11	0
6	9	Apr 29	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-3	CG	31	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
7	10	Apr 30	PIT		PHI	L,2-6	CG	39	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
8	13 (2)	May 7	PIT		BSN	L,9-11	CG	46	9.0	10	0	0	10	0
9	14	May 8	PIT		NYG	L,6-10	CG	47	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
10	16 (1)	May 10	PIT	@	CHC	W,8-3	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
11	17	May 11	PIT	@	CHC	L,5-7	CG	41	8.0	8	1	0	9	0
12	18	May 12	PIT	@	CHC	L,5-7	GS	32	7.0	5	0	1	6	0
13	20 (1)	May 15	PIT	@	NYG	L,2-5	GF	9	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
14	25 (4)	May 25	PIT		CHC	W,12-7	CG	44	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
15	26	May 26	PIT		CHC	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
16	27	May 27 (1)	PIT		CIN	L,1-2	CG	35	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
17	29 (1)	May 28	PIT		CIN	W,5-2	CG	35	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
18	30	May 29	PIT		CIN	L,0-4	CG	36	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
19	31	Jun 2 (1)	PIT		NYG	W,2-1	GS	29	8.0	3	1	0	4	1
20	33 (1)	Jun 3	PIT		NYG	L,3-4	CG	39	9.0	2	1	0	3	1
21	34	Jun 4	PIT		BSN	W,14-2	CG	34	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
22	35	Jun 6	PIT		BSN	W,7-6	CG	41	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
23	36	Jun 7	PIT		PHI	W,10-4	CG	0	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
24	37	Jun 8	PIT		PHI	W,6-5	GS	37	8.0	6	1	1	8	0
25	38	Jun 9 (1)	PIT		PHI	L,1-6	GS	31	7.0	2	0	0	2	0
26	39	Jun 9 (2)	PIT		PHI	W,11-5	GS	34	7.0	4	0	1	5	0
27	40	Jun 10	PIT		BRO	L,7-8	GS	34	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
28	41	Jun 12	PIT		BRO	L,4-5	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
29	42	Jun 14	PIT	@	NYG	L,6-8	GS	25	6.0	1	1	0	2	0
30	43	Jun 15	PIT	@	NYG	L,1-12	GS	31	5.0	2	1	2	5	0
31	45 (1)	Jun 16 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	W,5-3	CG	40	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
32	47 (1)	Jun 17 (2)	PIT	@	BSN	L,1-5	GS	36	7.0	2	2	0	4	1
33	53 (5)	Jun 23 (2)	PIT	@	BRO	T,4-4	CG	54	13.0	8	2	0	10	1
34	56 (2)	Jun 26 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	W,11-6	CG	39	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
35	59 (2)	Jun 30 (2)	PIT		STL	W,2-0	CG	30	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
36	62 (2)	Jul 3	PIT	@	CHC	L,5-7	CG	36	8.0	3	2	1	6	0
37	64 (1)	Jul 4 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	L,1-3	CG	31	8.0	6	1	0	7	0
38	67 (2)	Jul 6 (2)	PIT	@	STL	W,4-3	GS	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
39	68	Jul 7 (1)	PIT	@	STL	W,7-6	CG	43	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
40	72 (3)	Jul 14 (1)	PIT		BRO	W,6-2	CG	36	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
41	74 (1)	Jul 15 (1)	PIT		BRO	L,1-10	CG	43	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
42	78 (3)	Jul 19	PIT		NYG	L,2-5	CG	38	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
43	80 (1)	Jul 21 (1)	PIT		BSN	W,5-3	CG	36	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
44	83 (2)	Jul 25	PIT	@	NYG	W,2-1	GS	27	6.0	3	0	0	3	0
45	85 (1)	Jul 27	PIT	@	BSN	W,10-4	GS	0		1	0	0	1	0
46	86	Jul 28 (1)	PIT	@	BSN	W,5-2	CG	35	9.0	9	0	0	9	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
47	91 (4)	Aug 1 (2)	PIT	@	BRO	L,7-8	GS	22	4.0	4	1	0	5	0
48	93 (1)	Aug 3	PIT	@	PHI	W,8-0	GS	23	7.0	0	0	0	0	0
49	94	Aug 4 (1)	PIT	@	PHI	W,6-1	CG	32	9.0	7	1	0	8	1
50	98 (3)	Aug 7 (2)	PIT		STL	W,12-6	CG	41	9.0	2	1	1	4	0
51	100 (1)	Aug 10	PIT		CHC	L,0-1	GS	34	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
52	102 (1)	Aug 11 (2)	PIT		CHC	W,5-1	CG	31	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
53	104 (1)	Aug 13	PIT		CIN	L,3-4	GS	38	9.0	5	2	0	7	0
54	106 (1)	Aug 16 (1)	PIT	@	STL	W,6-5	CG	44	9.0	7	0	1	8	0
55	107	Aug 16 (2)	PIT	@	STL	L,5-9	GS	36	6.0	1	1	0	2	1
56	108	Aug 17	PIT	@	CHC	L,5-6	GS	44	10.0	3	2	0	5	0
57	109	Aug 18	PIT	@	CHC	L,1-9	GS	31	6.0	0	0	0	0	0
58	111 (1)	Aug 20	PIT		BSN	W,6-3	CG	39	9.0	6	0	1	7	0
59	112	Aug 21	PIT		BSN	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
60	113	Aug 22 (1)	PIT		NYG	L,4-5	CG	56	12.0	5	0	0	5	0
61	114	Aug 22 (2)	PIT		NYG	W,4-0	CG	30	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
62	115	Aug 23	PIT		NYG	W,13-10	CG	42	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
63	116	Aug 24	PIT		NYG	L,6-7	CG	43	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
64	117	Aug 25 (1)	PIT		BRO	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
65	118	Aug 25 (2)	PIT		BRO	L,1-8	GS	34	7.0	3	1	1	5	1
66	119	Aug 28 (1)	PIT		PHI	W,5-0	CG	33	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
67	121 (1)	Aug 29	PIT		PHI	W,4-0	CG	37	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
68	122	Sep 1 (1)	PIT		STL	W,10-0	CG	32	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
69	124 (1)	Sep 2 (1)	PIT		CHC	W,5-2	GS	26	7.0	3	1	0	4	1
70	128 (3)	Sep 7	PIT	@	STL	W,14-9	GS	31	5.0	4	0	0	4	0
71	129	Sep 8 (1)	PIT	@	STL	W,16-14	GS	27	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
72	132 (2)	Sep 10 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	W,11-1	GS	24	6.0	5	0	0	5	0
73	135 (2)	Sep 12 (2)	PIT	@	BRO	L,4-7	GS	28	6.0	1	0	0	1	0
74	136	Sep 13	PIT	@	BRO	L,2-8	GS	32	6.0	2	0	1	3	0
75	137	Sep 14 (1)	PIT	@	BRO	L,0-5	CG	37	8.0	4	0	0	4	0
76	139 (1)	Sep 15 (1)	PIT	@	NYG	W,10-3	GS	0		0	1	0	1	0
77	140	Sep 15 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	W,4-3	GS	0		3	0	0	3	0
78	141	Sep 16	PIT	@	NYG	W,7-6	CG	38	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
79	142	Sep 17	PIT	@	BSN	L,5-10	GS	30	7.0	1	0	0	1	0
80	145 (2)	Sep 19 (2)	PIT		STL	L,2-8	GS	29	7.0	4	1	0	5	0
81	146	Sep 21 (1)	PIT		CIN	L,1-8	GS	40	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
82	149 (2)	Sep 22 (2)	PIT		CIN	W,8-1	GS	31	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
83	150	Sep 23	PIT		CIN	W,12-9	GF	8	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
84	151	Sep 25 (1)	PIT	@	CHC	L,1-2	GF	0		0	0	0	0	0
85	152	Sep 25 (2)	PIT	@	CHC	L,4-6	CG	0	8.0	8	1	0	9	0
86	153	Sep 26	PIT	@	CHC	W,7-6	CG	41	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
87	154	Sep 27	PIT	@	CIN	W,4-3	CG	42	10.0	6	1	0	7	2
							87gm		663.0	288	61	12	361	11