American baseball player and manager (1856?1910)
Baseball player
Tom Loftus
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Tom_Loftus.jpg) Loftus in 1902
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Outfielder
/
Manager
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Born:
(
1856-11-15
)
November 15, 1856
St. Louis, Missouri
, U.S.
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Died:
August 16, 1910
(1910-08-16)
(aged 53)
Dubuque, Iowa
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Unknown
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August 17, 1877, for the
St. Louis Brown Stockings
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May 13, 1883, for the
St. Louis Browns
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Batting average
| .182
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Hits
| 6
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Managerial record
| 454?580
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- As player
- As manager
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Thomas Joseph Loftus
(November 15, 1856 – April 16, 1910) was an American
professional baseball
player and
manager
. He had a brief major-league playing career, appearing as an
outfielder
in parts of the 1877 and 1883 seasons. As a manager, he led major-league teams in the
Union Association
,
American Association
,
National League
, and
American League
.
Career
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Loftus' playing career began in 1877 with the
St. Louis Brown Stockings
of the
National League
, but he only played in nine career games, in 1877 and 1883, as an
outfielder
.
Loftus' first managerial job came in 1884 with the minor-league
Milwaukee Brewers
. That team also played 12 games as a replacement team in the short-lived
Union Association
, compiling an 8?4 record.
Loftus returned to manage the minor-league Brewers in 1885, until their league folded mid-season.
Loftus later took over as manager of the
Cleveland Spiders
, then known as the Blues, partway through the 1888 season after
Jimmy Williams
resigned.
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In 1890, Loftus was hired to manage the
Cincinnati Reds
, who had recently made the jump from the American Association to the National League. He left baseball after the 1891 season, but in 1900 he came back to manage the
Chicago Orphans
for two seasons and then the
Washington Senators
for two seasons.
In each of his managerial stops, Loftus had part ownership of the team.
[
citation needed
]
He died in
Dubuque, Iowa
, at the age of 53.
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