16 Facts About Tom Yawkey

Thomas Austin Yawkey, born Thomas Yawkey Austin, was an American industrialist, philanthropist, conservationist and Major League Baseball executive.

Bill Yawkey died in 1919 and left half of his $40 million estate to Tom.

Tom Yawkey graduated from the Irving School in Tarrytown, NY in 1920 and from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1925.

Tom Yawkey became team president, giving Collins control of day-to-day operations as vice president and general manager.

In 1957, Tom Yawkey was elected chairman of the Jimmy Fund's board of trustees and helped establish the tradition of the Red Sox playing exhibition games to raise money for the fund.

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Tom Yawkey spent millions over the course of his life attempting to build winning teams.

The Boston Globe wrote in his obituary that, in 1974, Tom Yawkey estimated his ownership of the team had cost him over $10 million.

Tom Yawkey never achieved his goal of winning a world championship.

In 1967, Robinson said Tom Yawkey was "probably one of the most bigoted guys in baseball".

Tom Yawkey was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.

Tom Yawkey Foundation was established in 1976 through a bequest in his will.

Tom Yawkey set aside $10 million in his will, which was probated in New York, to establish the foundation.

In 2007, the Tom Yawkey Foundations donated $30 million for the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute to build the Tom Yawkey Center for Cancer Care in Boston.

Tom Yawkey donated $100,000 to build the original hospital in 1945.

In 1919, when Tom Yawkey was 16, he inherited part of the land from his Uncle William, who originally purchased the land as part of the South Island Gun Club.

Tom Yawkey married Elise Sparrow in 1925, and the couple adopted a daughter named Julia in July 1936.