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The Life of William Ellsworth Hoy
First Deaf Baseball Player
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1860s

• Born May 23, 1862 in Houcktown, Ohio
• William contracted spinal meningitis when he was
  2
• Meningitis caused him to lose his hearing
• However, his love for baseball did not stop
  because of his deafness
• Earned his education at Ohio School for the Deaf

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The Beginning

• William Hoy played Major League Baseball for the
  Cincinnati Reds and Washington Senators
• He was started at only 60 a month
• Nickname Dummy Hoy
• His teammates started calling him "Dummy" because
  of his deafness

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1880s-1890s

• 1886, he began his baseball career in Oshkosh,
  Wisconsin
• 2 seasons later Hoy was traded to the Washington
  Senators, his 1st major-league team
• 1890, Hoy joined the Buffalo Brotherhood team
• American Associations St. Louis Brownsthe best
  team Hoy had played for so far

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1890s-1900s

• After be traded from various teams he was sold to
  the Cincinnati Reds
• He stayed here for 4 seasons, his longest stay on
  a team
• 1898 Hoy was again traded Louisville Colonels
• May 1, 1901, Hoy hit the first grand-slam home
  run in the newly-formed American League

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1900s

• May 16, 1902, first time in major-league history
  that two deaf players faced each other
• 1924, worked at Goodyear as a personnel director
• Coached Goodyear Silents baseball club
• 1951, Hoy was unanimously voted the first player
  to be entered in the American Athletic
  Association of the Deafs Hall of Fame

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1960s

• October 7, 1961- Hoy tossed the first ball at
  Opening Day of the third World Series game in
  Crosley Field
• Became ill and was hospitalized
• December 15, 1961- Hoy died of a stroke
• He was 6 months shy of his 100th birthday he
  hoped hed reach it and almost did

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Facts

• Throughout career Hoy stole 605 bases
• Invented the hand signs the umpires use
• Created signs for safe, out, strike, ball, etc.
• These signs became accepted by all umpires for
  all games, not just the ones in which Hoy played
• Signs are still used in todays baseball and
  softball games

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Facts (Contd)

• Batted Left
• Threw Right
• 56
• 160 pounds
• Final Game- July 17, 1902
• Hoy was not in baseball for the money he was in
  it for his passion, his love, "I wouldn't play
  for you for a million a month!"

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• I think that if it wasn't for "Dummy" Hoy
• most deaf people that dream of playing
• baseball would throw that dream away.
• William Hoy has kept that dream alive for
• deaf people.

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SOURCES

• http//www.baseball-reference.com/h/hoydu01.shtml
• http//www.thediamondangle.com/sitt/hoy.html
• http//library.thinkquest.org/5852/deafhoy.htm
• http//www.baseballhistorian.com/html/william_hoy.
  htm
• http//www.dummyhoy.com/

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HOMEWORK

• My love of sports inspired my interest in William
  Hoy, which intern inspired my interest in
  teaching Deaf Education. I would like you to
  make a PowerPoint presentation about an
  inspirational person of your own. You will need
  to have at least one slide with your title, five
  slides with information, and one slide with
  sources. You will be presenting your PowerPoint
  next class.