Recognizing one man’s quiet contribution to baseball.
When William “Dummy” Hoy stepped onto a major-league baseball field in 1888, he began to make history. Over the next fourteen years, playing for six teams including the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Senators & Nationals, he became well-known as a smart, fast center-fielder with excellent base-running skills and a cannon for an arm, amassing a career batting average of .288 with over 2,000 hits and over 600 stolen bases*. He was a good husband and father, a successful businessman, and a lifelong devotee of the game he loved. If he played today, Dayton Moore and the Kansas City Royals would covet him in a most unbiblical manner.