From: brian@meaddata.com (Brian Curran)
Subject: Re: "You could look it up."
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In article <1993Apr21.173432.28160@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, Mark B. writes:
|> 
|> 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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