Tommy Dowd (baseball)

Tommy Dowd
Outfielder / Second baseman
Born: (1869-04-20)April 20, 1869 Holyoke, Massachusetts
Died: July 2, 1933(1933-07-02) (aged 64) Holyoke, Massachusetts
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 8, 1891, for the Boston Reds
Last MLB appearance
September 28, 1901, for the Boston Americans
MLB statistics
Batting average	.271
Home runs	24
Runs batted in	501
Stolen bases	368
Teams
As Player Boston Reds (1891) Washington Senators (1891–1892) St. Louis Browns (1893–1897) Philadelphia Phillies (1897) St. Louis Browns (1898) Cleveland Spiders (1899) Boston Americans (1901) As Manager St. Louis Browns (1896–1897)

As Player

As Manager

Thomas Jefferson Dowd (April 20, 1869 – July 2, 1933), nicknamed "Buttermilk Tommy", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and second baseman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, who played for six teams during his ten-season career.

Dowd played college baseball at Brown University, and according to an article in the Brown Alumni Magazine:

Nineteenth-century baseball authority Tim Murnane of the Boston Globe proclaimed Dowd the best center fielder he'd ever seen, especially for his skill at sprinting back on a ball over his head and then turning left or right for the catch. For years Dowd held the unofficial record time for circling the bases.

Dowd made his major-league debut on April 8, 1891 for the Boston Reds of the American Association. He later played with the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Spiders in the National League and the Boston Americans in the American League. He was a right-handed batter with a career batting average of .271, and stole 366 bases in his major league career. His final game was September 28, 1901.

During the 1891 and 1892 off-seasons, Dowd was the head football coach at Georgetown University.

After his career, he coached at Amherst College and Williams College, and managed in several minor and independent leagues. In 1908 he was managing at Hartford, and signed Chick Evans to a contract. Dowd also studied law at Georgetown University. He was given credit for discovering Rabbit Maranville.

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