Dummy Hoy Statute from Steve Sandy
Hoy statue in DC?! Yes!
Check this link http://www.legacyforohio.org, click "Blog", then "H" and "Hoy".
Submit your comments (right side of the screen) in supporting Dummy Hoy statue.
Also send an email to these respectful Senators and Representatives that you support William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy to replace William Allen Statue.
The members of the National Statuary Committee are:
Senator Wagoner (Chairman):
Senate Building
Room #129, First Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Telephone: 614/466-8060
Email: SD02@senate.state.oh.us
Representative Letson (Vice Chairman):
77 S. High St
11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-5358
Fax: (614) 719-3964
Email: district64@ohr.state.oh.us
Senator Fedor:
Statehouse
Room #051, Ground Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Telephone: 614/466-5204
Email: fedoroffice@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Senator Gillmor:
Senate Building
Room #035, Ground Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Telephone: 614/466-8049
Email: SD26@senate.state.oh.us
Representative R. Adams:
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-8114
Fax: (614) 719-3979
Email: district79@ohr.state.oh.us
Representative Yates:
77 S. High St
13th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-1308
Fax: (614) 719-3587
Email: district33@ohr.state.oh.us
The information about the statue is below for your reading.
http://uschsonline-exhibits.uschs.org/statuaryhall/uschs_statuary-00.htm
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/nat_stat_hall.cfm
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/allen_w.cfm
The Statue of William Allen is scheduled to be removed when and once a replacement is set. The reason of being replaced is that he was an "opponent of the Emancipation Proclamation." He owned slaves and opposed to what President Lincoln announcing to free the slaves.
This is a good chance to have the William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy statue being the one to be replaced.
Why: A man of honestly in baseball. An umpire asked Hoy if he caught on bounce or fly (not usual for an umpire to ask a player in/or during the
game) He responded on a "bounce". The owner of the baseball team praised him as "I would rather loose the game on honestly than win by cheating."
The oldest, longest, lightest and shortest man in the centerfield history.
Oldest: 99 Years old when he passed on (May 23, 1862 - December 15, 1961)
Longest: 17 years
Lightest: 145/150 lbs
Shortest: 5'4" - 5'5"
Education: 7 years, 1872-1879. Valedictorian for the high school!
Record: Multi Leagues played:
Northwestern League, National League, American League, American Association, Brotherhood League, Pacific Coast League - As Milwaukee Brewers (brief stint), Oshkosh, Washington Senators, Buffalo Bison, Louisville Colonels, St Louis Brownstockings, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angeles
The only man in history of 19th century to throw from centerfield to catcher without a bounced or relayed with not once, not twice but thrice in one game in 1889 barehanded! Guess who was the catcher? Connie Mack!
Can you image, 5'4" player (Hoy) catching a ball and then "firethrow"
from deep part of the centerfield across the field to the catcher square "miff" into his hands without bounce or relay (2nd base or Shortstop to catcher). "It was like he (Hoy) was throwing pitches from the centerfield. No one could even do that in history.
Baseball average: .288 - .291 (record varies from books)
Players he had teamed with: Connie Mack, Commie Comiskey, Honus "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner, Clark Griffith, Fred Clarke, Frank Chance, Frank Selee, Sam "Wahoo" Crawford, King Kelly, Hubble Hargroves, Deacon White and several late 19th to early 20th Century players.
Introduction: baseball hand signals! Strikes, ball, safe, arm swing (run to home from third base coaching box)
A true Ohioian! Born in Houcktown, Ohio (southeast of Toledo), married in Cincinnati, Ohio, Died in Mt. Healthy, Ohio (Cincinnati), cremated and scattered in Lytle Park, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Induction (Hall of Fames): 1) American Athletic Association for the Deaf, 2) Louisville Colonels, 3) Ohio School for the Deaf, 4) Hancock County Sports, 5) Baseball Reliquary - Shrine of the Eternals, 6) Ohio Baseball, 7) Star In Their Time, 8) Cincinnati Reds, and waiting for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Location: Hoy Field at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and Hoy Street at Wisconsin School for the Deaf at Delavan, Wisconsin.
"Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Hero" documentary order yours at http://www.dacorpictures.com,, Inventor of the puzzle ball, poet, father of 6 children, farmer (bought land from the famed poetesses sisters Cary estate in Cincinnati and managed it for 20 years), personnel director at Goodyear in Akron during The Great War and he hired Deaf workers for the balloon department.
Currently working on feature film, "The Legend of Dummy Hoy". Release
date: TBD.
Proclamation: Buffalo (NY) May 23, 1995, Louisville (KY) May 23, 1995, Columbus (OH) May 8, 1995, Cincinnati (OH) May 23, 1995, Oshkosh (WI) April 25, 1995, and Charles County (MD) May 23, 2003.
Statue: Should a Hoy statue be selected, it would be the shortest statue in history! Whats more, he will be the first Deaf person to be a statue and placed in Washington, D.C. a history to be witnessing!
Steve Sandy
Associate Producer and Researcher