Clark Griffith Batting

Clark Griffith (1869–1955) was the "Old Fox" — pitcher, manager, and eventually the owner of the Washington Senators, the man whose name would attach itself to the District of Columbia ballpark for decades. A right-handed pitcher who threw and hit from that side, he built his playing reputation in the 1890s as a crafty, junkball ace before moving into the dugout for the New York Highlanders, the Cincinnati Reds, and finally Washington. The T206 "Batting" card depicts him during his National League managerial stretch with Cincinnati, an unusual hitting pose for a man best known for his pitching arm. Griffith died October 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C., where he had run the Senators for the better part of forty years. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1946 by the Old Timers Committee, recognized as much for his executive contributions to the American League's founding as for his work on the field.