Thomas Clarence Noyes (c. 1868 – August 21, 1912) was an American newspaper editor and baseball executive who was a co-owner of the Washington Senators of the American League with Ban Johnson from 1904 until his death.
Noyes a son of Crosby Stuart Noyes, and was an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the Washington Evening Star when he bought the club from Ban Johnson and Fred Postal. The team was an also-ran for most of his tenure, the only highlight being the acquisition of Walter Johnson in . Things really didn't turn around until Clark Griffith took over as manager in .
From 1896 to 1904, Noyes owned Ingleside, an 1851 villa designed by Thomas Ustick Walter in the modern-day Mount Pleasant neighborhood.[1]
Noyes died suddenly in 1912 of pneumonia at a Washington, D.C. hospital. He was 44.[2] [3]
The Senators were later sold to a group headed by Griffith in 1919.