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Thomas Daniel Daly (December 12, 1891, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada – November 7, 1946, Medford, Massachusetts, USA) was a Canadian baseball catcher and coach.
He was a catcher with the Chicago White Sox (1913-15), Cleveland Guardians (1916) and Chicago Cubs (1918-21), helping the Cubs to the 1918 World Series.
After his major league career, he coached the Maple Leafs (in) of Toronto in the International League during the 1932 season. He then coached the Boston Red Sox for 14 seasons (1933-1946), the longest continuous period for a coach for the Bosox. During this period, he was a third base coach from 1937 to 1943.
Daly died in Medford, Massachusetts of colorectal cancer at the age of 54.
