The Strange Chicago Sojourn of Tommy Davis

William S. Bike
5 min readApr 7, 2022

Chicago was not kind to former two-time batting champion

Tommy Davis holds the dubious record of being traded away from Chicago teams three times, in three bad deals.

By William S. Bike

Former Major League Baseball star Tommy Davis died at the beginning of April, and the coast-centric national news reports of course focused on his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where Davis did win two batting championships and played in two World…

William S. Bike

Author of "Winning Political Campaigns," a how-to book on all aspects of political campaigning, and commentator on history and baseball.