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Baseball signs (jul 13, 1862 – jul 13, 1961)

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William "Dummy" Hoy (1862-1961), the first deaf Major League baseball player, was the reason umpires adopted hand signals: "out", "safe", and "strike".

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jul 13, 1862
jul 13, 1961
~ 99 years