{"product_id":"259-dummy-hoy-7-x-10-5","title":"259. \"Dummy Hoy \"  7\" x 10.5\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 × 10.5 inches art print (not a comic book)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailability:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pre-order ends Sunday, October 11th at 3 PM PT \/ 6 PM ET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e Expected to ship \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eapproximately\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e40–60 days after the purchase window closes.\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEstimated timeframe. Not guaranteed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Artist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis name was William Ellsworth Hoy, and when I started working on this piece, I wasn't going to call it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDummy Hoy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It didn't feel right. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen I started reading about him and realized that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHoy had been called \"Dummy\" for most of his life. It was what they called him in baseball, what he called himself, and, by one account, when people later tried to be polite and call him William, Hoy corrected them s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eo I stopped trying to correct it for him. If he were here to collab on this with me, I'm fairly certain he'd want to call title it \"Dummy\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe nickname came from an old and ugly use of the word for someone who could not hear or speak. Hoy was born in 1862. The language belonged to his time, and so did he.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe also happened to be one\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehell of a ballplayer\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHoy played major-league baseball from 1888 through 1902. He collected 2,048 hits, scored 1,429 runs, stole 596 bases and walked 1,006 times. He reached base at a .386 clip. When he retired, he ranked second in baseball history in walks and fourth in stolen bases, and nobody had played more games in center field.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBaseball had to be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Hoy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalls had to be communicated visually. Teammates learned signs. Coaches relayed information with their hands. Hoy carried those methods from club to club through 14 seasons in four major leagues, and his long association with visual signals became part of baseball history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExactly how much credit he deserves for the hand signals eventually adopted by umpires is still debated to this day. The old story that Hoy simply invented them is probably too tidy to be true. The better story, I think, is what we know: Hoy found ways to make a game built around communication work visually, and in turn, work for others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are thirteen hands on this Pop Fly \u0026amp; y\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eou get to figure out what they say.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pop Fly Pop Shop","offers":[{"title":"Regular","offer_id":67654584860803,"sku":"REG_DUMMYHOY","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6450\/5260\/files\/DummyHoyWEB.jpg?v=1791076564","url":"https:\/\/popflypopshop.com\/products\/259-dummy-hoy-7-x-10-5","provider":"Pop Fly Pop Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}