Breaking Barriers in Baseball & Deaf History
Includes a Live Web Event on 04/15/2025 at 7:00 PM (EDT)
This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.15 PS CEUs at the little/none Content Knowledge Level. RID HQ is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities.
Join us in exploring a piece of Deaf History by learning more about the remarkable life and legacy of William "Dummy" Hoy, one of baseball's most influential yet often overlooked figures. We will delve into the historical research surrounding Hoy's career, his impact on the sport, and the challenges he overcame as a Deaf player in professional baseball. Not only was he a skilled outfielder who was a pioneering athlete that helped shape the use of hand signals in baseball but changed accessibility in sports on a broad scale. Hoy and this webinar are game-changers!
Upon completion of this session, participants will:
1. Summarize at least three key contributions Dummy Hoy made to baseball & Deaf history, &
2. Discern how Hoy's career influenced the development of hand signals in baseball and identify one way his legacy continues to impact the sport today.
Steve Sandy
Associate Producer/Researcher
Steve Sandy, like Hoy, is Deaf. Steve attended Model Secondary School for the Deaf and Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and then went to work for the Federal Government where he has worked for the past 23 years. He is currently with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service-Columbus - Defense Commissary Agency as a researcher and lead and is also a finalist for the FEA handicap federal Employee of the Year.
For the past eighteen years Steve has done extensive research on his idol, Dummy Hoy.In 1989, Steve became President of the Ohio Association of the Deaf, a statewide advocacy group that was founded in 1940 as the Ohio Deaf Motorist Association. Among items on the organization's agenda was a measure supporting Hoy's inclusion in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.Steve was one of the people who were instrumental in getting Dummy Hoy inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
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