Thomas Clarence Noyes (January 14, 1868 – August 21, 1912) was an American newspaper editor and baseball executive. From 1904 until his death, he co-owned the Washington Senators of the

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, with

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Biography

Noyes was born in

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on January 14, 1868, a son of

Crosby Stuart Noyes Crosby Stuart Noyes (February 16, 1825 – February 21, 1908) was the publisher of the ''Washington Evening Star''. Biography Noyes was born on February 16, 1825, in Minot, Maine. Interested in writing from childhood, he published a juvenile ...

and Elizabeth S. Noyes (). He graduated from

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in 1889. He was an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the ''

Washington Evening Star ''The Washington Star'', previously known as the ''Washington Star-News'' and the ''Washington'' ''Evening Star'', was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981. The Sunday edition was known as the ''Sunday ...

'' when he bought the club from

and Fred Postal. The team was an also-ran for most of his tenure, the only highlight being the acquisition of

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in . Things really didn't turn around until

Clark Griffith Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955, ), nicknamed "the Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager and team owner. He began his MLB playing career with the St. Louis Browns (1891), Boston Re ...

took over as manager in . From 1896 to 1904, Noyes owned Ingleside, an 1851 villa designed by

Thomas Ustick Walter Thomas Ustick Walter (September 4, 1804 – October 30, 1887) was an American architect. He worked on more than 400 projects, including Moyamensing Prison and Girard College in Philadelphia. He served as the fourth Architect of the Capitol, ...

in the modern-day Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Noyes died suddenly of pneumonia on August 21, 1912 at a Washington, D.C. hospital. He was 44. The Senators were later sold to a group headed by Griffith in 1919.

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