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There's one titan from that bygone heyday, however, who's still waiting for his hallowed berth in Cooperstown. His name is William Ellsworth Hoy and, in spite of a career that spanned three decades and 14 seasons, the baseball sages on the committee have allowed another year to pass without inducting...
...Hoy's credentials for admission are impeccable, but what makes his a true baseball legend is his pugnacious attitude toward his life and the game that consumed...
...every box score and record book, he is listed as Dummy Hoy, a perpetual recognition of his lifelong handicap. He was born deaf and dumb on May 23, 1862 in Houckstown, Ohio and broke into the big leagues in 1888 when he joined the Washington club in the National League...
...Hoy was the quintessential master of a game that would no longer be familiar to present-day players. He was a slapdash hitter who careened along the basepaths and the endless outfields of the old ballparks with reckless abandon. He had an uncanny sense of the strike zone and surprising power for a man who stood only 5 ft., 4 in. tall...
...rookie season, Hoy led the league with 82 stolen bases and finished with 594 thefts by the time he retired after the 1902 season. That many stolen bases is enough in itself to entitle him to a posthumous spot in Cooperstown, as only Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Max Carey and Honus Wagner swiped more during Hoy's lifetime...