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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Tom Oliver
|position=Center fielder
|image=
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1903|1|15|mf=y}}
|birth_place=Montgomery, Alabama
|death_date={{death date and age|1988|2|26|1903|1|15}}
|death_place=Montgomery, Alabama
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=April 14
|debutyear={{Baseball year|1930}}
|debutteam=Boston Red Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 23
|finalyear={{Baseball year|1933}}
|finalteam=Boston Red Sox
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=Batting average
|stat1value=.277
|stat2label=Home runs
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=Runs batted in
|stat3value=176
|teams=
  • Boston Red Sox (1930–33)

}}

Thomas Noble Oliver (January 15, 1903 – February 26, 1988) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from {{Baseball year|1930}} through {{Baseball year|1933}} for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at {{height|ft=6|in=0}}, 168 lb, Oliver batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

Oliver was a slap hitter who rarely tried to drive the ball. As an outfielder, his arm and speed were already well above average, while his graceful style prompted baseball historian Fred Lieb to compare him to Joe DiMaggio and Tris Speaker.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

In his rookie season for Boston, Oliver led the American League in games played (154), outs (472) and at-bats (646), while hitting a career-high .293 and leading his team in runs (86), hits (186) and singles (153). He enjoyed another good season in 1931, when he hit .276 and posted career-numbers in doubles (35) and RBI (75). He also led his team in singles (122), triples (5) and outs (436), and was considered in the American League MVP vote. The next two years he shared duties at center field with Dusty Cooke and Carl Reynolds.

In a four-season career, Oliver was a .277 hitter with 202 runs and 176 RBI in 514 games, including 191 doubles, 11 triples, 12 stolen bases, and a .316 on-base percentage without home runs. In 504 games at center field, he collected 1425 outs with 45 assists and made 14 double plays, while committing 21 errors in 1491 chances for a .986 fielding percentage.

Oliver holds the modern major league baseball record by going 1931 at-bats without a home run in his career.

Oliver coached for the Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles from 1951 to 1954. He also scouted for the Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins. He died at the age of 85 in Montgomery.

A member of an athletic family, Oliver was the uncle of William Oliver "Whitey" Overton who ran track in the 1948 Olympics and the great uncle of William Oliver "Bill" Overton, Jr. who played representative rugby for the Texas Rugby Union and club rugby for the Austin Huns Rugby Football Club from 1975 to 1984.

External links

{{Baseballstats | br=o/oliveto01 }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604124056/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Tom_Oliver_1903 Baseball Library]
  • Retrosheet
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