"Dead-ball" era Characters wanted....tell us of your favorites ?

[iggyman]

A little bit more info. on Arthur L. "Bugs" Raymond's death:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...+raymond&hl=en

Lovely Day...

[Jay Wolt]

Iggy Thanks for the article scan

[iggyman]

A little bit past the T206 era but a little bit before the Goudey era, what about Flint Rhem??? A recent eBay auction brought him to mind. In the thick of a pennant race and on the day he was scheduled to pitch, he actually claimed that he was kidnapped by two Brooklyn Dodger fans and forced to drink booze for 24 hours ??? The great part about this tale, is that he got away with it. Here is the story as per Google archives>>>

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...int+rhem&hl=en


In 1960 he told the truth (or at least blamed it on Gabby Street who was conveniently dead at the time>>>

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...int+rhem&hl=en

Lovely Day...

[deadballera]

Luther "Dummy" Taylor was profoundly deaf and performed on-field communications with his teammates in sign language. He is credited with helping to expand and make universal the use of sign language throughout the modern baseball infield, including but not limited to the use of pitching signs. He played baseball at the same time as another deaf player, William Ellsworth Hoy, more commonly known as Dummy Hoy

[pgellis]

To expand just a little on Dummy Taylor. He was 1 of 3 deaf children born to hearing parents. He played for McGraw's Giants and his teammates learned sign language so that they could communicate with him. He then moved on to Cleveland and found it frustrating and difficult there because the Cleveland players did not bother to learn sign language.

He went back to the Giants and would often "sign" during the game regarding his thoughts of the job that the umpires were doing. He once got bagged by an umpire that also could read sign language and was fined for doing so.

Here's a very good article on Taylor:

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?...=14004&bid=987