‘Dummy’ Hoy, Baseball’s Deaf Pioneer, Gets Long-Awaited Push for the Hall of Fame

Go to any ballpark near you—be it Wrigley Field, Fenway Park or your local Little League diamond—and you’ll see the same repeated sequence: the pitcher deals, the batter watches the ball go by, and the umpire raises an arm and yells, “Strike!” It’s as mundane a sequence as…