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14-453: Francis Reynolds may refer to: Francis A. Reynolds (died 1970), American college athletics administrator Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie (1739–1808), British naval officer Francis Reynolds (priest) (died 1852), archdeacon of Bombay Francis Esmond Reynolds (1882–1967), British pathologist and medical author Francis Reynolds (legal scholar) (born 1932), professor of law at

28-534: A .292 batting average, 44 home runs and roughly 500 stolen bases. After his playing career ended, McCarthy served as the head baseball coach at Holy Cross (1899–1900, 1904–1905, and 1916), Dartmouth (1906–1907), and Boston College (1920). He was also a scout for the Cincinnati Reds (1909–1912), Boston Braves (1913–1915) and Boston Red Sox (1920) and manager of the Newark Bears (1918). In 1921, he joined

42-591: A piano company, where he received $ 18 a week for work in their factory and play for the company baseball team. Later that year, McCarthy joined the Boston Reds in the Union Association as a starting pitcher and outfielder . In limited innings and at-bats, he played poorly, batting at a paltry .215 average, and lost all seven of his pitching appearances. McCarthy moved to the National League and played with

56-893: A verbal agreement for Evers to become the school's head baseball coach. however, Evers instead accepted a last minute offer to join the New York Giants as a coach . Reynolds was instead able to sign Tommy McCarthy to a three-year contract, although he left after a year to join the Brooklyn Dodgers coaching staff. After Harvard University athletic director Fred Moore removed Boston College from Harvard's 1920 football schedule , Reynolds canceled Boston College's scheduled baseball and hockey games against Harvard. BC and Harvard would not play each other in any sport again until 1943, when Harvard chose to play an informal schedule against local colleges and military teams due to World War II . In November 1929, Reynolds left Boston College to enter

70-421: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Francis A. Reynolds A graduate of Boston College High School , Reynolds attended Boston College, where he was the first baseman on the baseball team in 1913 and 1914. He was the assistant manager of the football team in 1914 and team manager in 1915. He graduated in 1916. During World War I , Reynolds

84-749: The Boston Beaneaters the following season and the Philadelphia Quakers the following two years but failed to bat higher than .200 in any season, although in limited at-bats. Setting aside aspirations of being a star pitcher, McCarthy finally settled into an everyday position in a lineup in 1888 with the St. Louis Browns in the American Association . With the Browns until 1891 , McCarthy scored over 100 runs each season and grew increasingly productive at

98-752: The Brooklyn Dodgers coaching staff. In 1921, McCarthy had a severe attack of double pneumonia and was in critical condition. He recovered and traveled south for the winter. His health declined when he returned home and in June was diagnosed with cancer. He died on August 5, 1922. McCarthy's selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946 has always been a controversial one due to his less than spectacular statistics, especially when compared to those of his fellow inductees and some players who have not yet been honored. In his 2001 book, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract , Sabermetrician Bill James makes

112-631: The University of Oxford Francis Reynolds (politician) (died 1773), British politician, member of parliament for Lancaster [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis_Reynolds&oldid=1234153969 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

126-588: The business world. In 1931 Reynolds opened a travel agency on Beacon Street in Boston . By 1967 he was living at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts . He died on November 21, 1970, after a long illness. Tommy McCarthy (baseball) As manager Thomas Francis Michael McCarthy (July 24, 1863 – August 5, 1922) was an American Major League Baseball player. He

140-470: The next few years. In 1893 , he drove in over 100 runs for the first time in his career, a feat that he repeated in 1894 while hitting 13 home runs . The press of the day called McCarthy and teammate Hugh Duffy the "Heavenly Twins". Their Boston team was one of the most successful clubs of the era. McCarthy played for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms in 1896 before retiring. He finished his career with

154-486: The plate. He batted .350 in 1890 and drove in 95 runs in 1891. Although the shoddy record-keeping of the time prevents an accurate tally, he also asserted himself as a daring presence on the base-paths, by some accounts stealing over 100 bases in 1888 and approaching the mark in 1890. McCarthy moved back to the National League to play for the Boston Beaneaters in 1892 and enjoyed his most productive seasons over

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168-409: The point that McCarthy was held in such high esteem because of his introduction of the " hit and run " play into the game. This play, among other novel strategies (such as batter to baserunner signals, etc.) that he and his Boston teammates utilized, were a clever and gentlemanly counter to the rough and tumble "Baltimore" style of play which was, at the time, giving baseball a bad name. Nevertheless, in

182-1088: Was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service and served an aviation instructor at the Army Balloon School at Fort Omaha . In 1922 he married Lucy E. McCarthy of Roxbury . The ceremony was performed by Boston College president William J. Devlin . In 1919, Boston College President William J. Devlin and faculty director of athletics Richard A. O'Brien recruited Reynolds to the position of graduate director of athletics. The school's athletic reputation grew under Reynolds and his coaches, which included football coaches Frank Cavanaugh and Joe McKenney , track coach Jack Ryder, baseball coaches Olaf Henriksen , Jack Slattery , and Hugh Duffy , and hockey coaches Fred Rocque and Sonny Foley . Boston College's football teams, led by Luke Urban , Tony Comerford , Warren McGuirk , Al Weston , and Jack Heaphy, went undefeated 1920 and 1928 . In 1920, officials from Boston College and Johnny Evers reached

196-490: Was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. McCarthy was born on July 24, 1863, in Boston, Massachusetts , the eldest son of seven surviving children to Daniel and Sarah McCarthy nee Healy. Daniel McCarthy was born in County Kerry, Ireland. After graduating from South Boston 's John A. Andrew Grammar School, McCarthy worked for a clothing company during the day and played baseball at night. In 1884, he went to work for

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