Thomas Francis Tennant (July 3, 1882 – February 15, 1955) was a professional baseball player. In an 11-season minor league career, he had 1,825 hits and a .274 batting average.[1] He also played two games in Major League Baseball in 1912. Tennant was 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed 165 pounds.[2]
Tennant spent 1909 through 1911 with the San Francisco Seals of the class A Pacific Coast League.[1] In 1910, he had 231 hits in 223 games to lead his league in hits for the third time.[6] Then in April 1912, Tennant broke into the major leagues with the St. Louis Browns. He appeared in two games for them that month as a pinch hitter and went 0 for 2 at the plate with 1 run scored.[2] The Browns had used eight first basemen in 1911 but traded for veteran standout George Stovall from the Cleveland Indians in the off-season. A St. Louis newspaper commented that Tennant "had the goods, but he came just one year late to land the regular job".[3] The rest of the 1912 season, he played for the Western League's Sioux City Packers.[1]
In 1913, Tennant returned to the Pacific Coast League, displacing Hughie Miller as the starting first baseman for the Sacramento Solons.[7] He batted .299 with a league-leading 47 doubles in his first year back, but his statistics declined after that.[1][8] He retired from professional baseball after the 1916 season.[1]
