data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.104833 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Brian Curran)
Subject: Re: "You could look it up."
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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In article <[email protected]>, Mark B. writes:
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|> Yes, I could look it up but I prefer to post this question
|> to the net...
|>
|> I read somewhere in a long forgotten article that the handsignals
|> used by major league umps were originally used to help a
|> deaf ball player by the name of "Dummy". Urban myth? True?
|> I gots ta know.
True. William "Dummy" Hoy was baseball's first deaf player. He
played in the bigs from 1888 through 1903 for several teams, including
the White Sox and Reds.
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