Saturday, June 9, 2012

The last deaf pitcher

Luther Taylor won 116 games for the Indians and Giants in the early 1900's. He was the last deaf Major League pitcher (Curtis Pride who now coaches Gallaudet's baseball team was an outfielder). A story is told that Taylor's manager with the Giants learned sign language. During one game, an umpire who was also fluent in sign realized that the two were complaining about his calls and threw them both out of the game.

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