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.

In 1905, Dowd coached the football team at St. Louis University,[2] leading the Blue and White to a 7–2 record.

[3] Dowd died at the age of 64 in his hometown of Holyoke of accidental drowning.