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Dummy Hoy

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Baseball Player

The Resume

    (May 23, 1862-December 15, 1961)
    Born in Houcktown, Ohio
    Birth name was William Ellsworth Hoy
    Center fielder for the Washington Nationals (1888-89), Buffalo Bisons (1890), St. Louis Browns (1891), Washington Senators (1892-93), Cincinnati Reds (1894-97,1902), Louisville Colonels (1898-99), and Chicago White Sox (1901)
    .288 batting average
    2,048 hits
    596 stolen bases

Why he might be annoying:

    His nickname would be considered politically incorrect these days.
    He is sometimes said to have inspired the hand signals used by umpires to indicate balls and strikes, but there is no contemporary evidence to support the claim. (And Hoy himself never took the credit.)
    Organized campaigns to convince the Veterans Committee to induct him into the Baseball Hall of Fame have been going on for over 70 years without success (as of 2020).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He went deaf after suffering meningitis at age three.
    He was valedictorian of his class at the Ohio State School for the Deaf.
    He set a record for outfielders (since tied) by throwing out three runners at home plate in a game (June 19, 1889).
    He supervised deaf workers at Goodyear during World War I.
    One of his children died in the Spanish flu epidemic (1918).
    He was married to Anna Marie Lowry for 51 years until her death.
    He was unanimously named the first inductee of the USA Deaf Sports Federation’s Hall of Fame (1951).
    The baseball field at Gallaudet, a university for the deaf and hard of hearing, was named after him (2001).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying