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Transcription: [00:40:18]
{SPEAKER name="Barbara Kannapell/Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
He was one of the most valuable players and he couldn't read lips, uh, the umpires and so on,
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so they had to make signs for the umpires to use so that Hoy could understand what the umpire was saying after he made the pitch.
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So here was "strike", "ball" on the other side and so on. And also they had other signs like that for "safe" and that for "out."
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So Hoy knew what was going on in the game and then another baseball team saw that, liked it and asked all the other umpires to imitate that and it spread all over. Now you see all umpires using it today.
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Another one, a baseball player named Dummy Taylor. He has been lonesome on the team. No one would talk to him. He walked around the baseball field and he used to say like that "deaf", "deaf", "deaf", "deaf", "deaf"
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until he saw the deaf fans waving, going "Yeah, I'm deaf too." "You're deaf?" Then he would wave; start talking to them; start talking with the fans to keep him company during the game. [[clapping]]
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{SPEAKER name="William Ennis/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
Maybe I could add one thing to that, I'd like to. I'm sure, everyone, all the deaf people had similar experiences and a sense of humor.
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Some deaf people discussed and met, agreed where they were going to meet and it was passed along where they were going to meet on this corner. So, they went and stood and waited and waited on the corner
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and they'd see a person coming and they'd say, "Well I think that's a deaf person. I'm probably supposed to meet that person on this corner but I think I'll wait and see." They wait and wait and that person would be looking. "What time is it? Time?" So I decided to play like I was a hearing person like you and I'd say like that.