Roy Thomas "Peaches" Davis (May 31, 1905 – April 28, 1995) was an American

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(MLB)

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from 1936 to 1939. He played for the

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. Davis began his professional baseball career with the Class A

Topeka Jayhawks Topeka ( ; Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central Unit ...

of the Western League in 1929. After seven years of minor league baseball, he made his MLB debut with the Reds on July 11, 1936. His final game with the Reds came on August 17, 1939. He returned to minor league baseball for the 1940–42 and 1945 seasons. Born in

Glen Rose, Texas Glen Rose is a city in and the county seat of Somervell County, Texas, United States. As of the 2012 census estimate, the city population was 2,502. History 19th century The area was first settled in 1849 by Charles Barnard, who opened a tradin ...

, Davis died in

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, a month short of his 90th birthday.

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