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American baseball histrion

Luther "Dummy" Taylor
Pitcher
Born: (1875-02-21)February 21, 1875 Oskaloosa, Kansas
Died: August 22, 1958(1958-08-22) (aged 83) Jacksonville, Illinois
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 27, 1900, for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
September 29, 1908, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	116–106
Earned run average	2.75
Strikeouts	767
Teams
New York Giants (1900–1901) Cleveland Bronchos (1902) New York Giants (1902–1908)
Career highlights and awards
National League leader in games pitched (1901)

Luther Haden "Dummy" Taylor (February 21, 1875 – August 22, 1958) was an American right-handed bullpen in Major League Baseball from 1900 to 1908 who was deaf. He played for the New York Giants^[1] and Cleveland Bronchos and was one of the key pitchers on the Giants' National League championship teams of 1904 and 1905.

In 1901, his first full season in the major leagues, Taylor led the National League by pitching in 45 games and ranked second in the league with 37 complete games. In 1904, he won 21 games for the Giants, and in 1906 his 2.twenty earned run average was the lowest on a pitching staff that included Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson (2.97), and "Iron Man" Joe McGinnity (2.25).

Taylor was the only successful deaf pitcher in Major League Baseball and was regarded, along with Dummy Hoy, as a role model and hero for hearing dumb Americans in the early 20th century.^[2] In the 1900s, Taylor was reported to be the highest paid deaf person in the United States. He was also known as the comedian of the Giants teams, waving a lit lantern when an umpire refused to call a game due to darkness and coaching at third base in rubber boots when an umpire refused to telephone call a game due to rain.

In 2000, writer Darryl Brock wrote the historical novel Havana Estrus about Taylor's experience in professional person baseball game. The book won the Dave Moore Award in 2000 as the "nigh important baseball volume" published that twelvemonth.^[3]

Early on years [edit]

Taylor was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas in 1875. He was the son of Arnold B. Taylor, a farmer, and his married woman, Emaline (Chatman) Taylor. At the time of the 1880 Us Census, Taylor was living in rural Jefferson County, Kansas with his parents, two older brothers, and two older sisters.^[4] Some accounts signal Taylor was built-in deaf.^[5] Yet, at historic period four, Taylor was not listed as being "deafened and dumb" or otherwise handicapped in the family's U.South. Demography record.^[4] By age 10, Taylor was living at the Kansas Schoolhouse For the Deaf in Olathe, Kansas. He was listed in the 1885 Kansas State Census equally a pupil at the Deaf and Dumb Plant.^[vi]

Taylor connected to live at the Kansas School for the Deaf through his high schoolhouse years. He was a pitcher for the school baseball game team and too participated in battle. Interviewed in 1942, Taylor recalled he had dreams every bit a boy of condign a bully boxer, just his parents objected.^[vii] At the time of the 1895 Kansas State Demography, Taylor was living in Olathe.^[8]

Semi-pro and pocket-size league baseball [edit]

Afterward leaving the Kansas School for the Deaf, Taylor began playing semi-pro baseball with a team in Nevada, Missouri. He so played at Lincoln, Illinois, and with minor league teams in Wabash, Crawfordsville, Danville and Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1897, he played for a minor league team in Mattoon, Illinois. He played for the Shreveport Tigers of the Southern League in 1898 and 1899.^[7]

In 1900, Taylor began the flavor playing for Albany, New York. At the time of the U.S. Census in June 1900, Taylor was residing at a boarding house in Albany; his occupation was listed as a printer.^[9]

Major League Baseball [edit]

First stint with Giants [edit]

In August 1900, Taylor was called upwards to the major leagues to play for the New York Giants. He fabricated his major league debut on Baronial 28, 1900. In his first game for the Giants, five Boston players tried to have advantage of Taylor's deafness by trying to steal tertiary base. Interviewed in 1942, Taylor recalled with pride, "I nailed each one. I walked over to (Herman) Long, the last man defenseless, and let him know past signs I could hear him stealing."^[seven] Appearing in eleven games for the 1900 Giants, Taylor compiled a iv–three record with a 2.45 earned run boilerplate.^[x]

In his second season in the major leagues, Taylor was a workhorse for the 1901 Giants. He led the National League with 43 games started and by appearing in a total of 45 games. He besides ranked 2nd in the league with 37 complete games, 353+ 1⁄iii innings pitched, and i,518 batters faced.^[10] Despite maintaining a respectable 3.18 earned run boilerplate, Taylor played for a weak-hitting Giants squad that finished 7th out of viii teams in hits and runs produced.^[xi] With the absence of run support, Taylor finished the flavor with a win–loss record of xviii–27. His 27 losses in 1901 is tied for the 2d most given upwards by any bullpen in Major League Baseball game during the 20th century (trailing Vic Willis's 29 losses in 1905).^[12]

Cleveland Bronchos [edit]

In March 1902, Taylor signed for more money with the Cleveland Bronchos of the American League.^[5] He recalled that American League teams were "waving big money at usa" in the winter before the 1902 flavour.^[7] Taylor appeared in 4 games for the Bronchos, all as a starter. Despite a 1.59 earned run boilerplate, Taylor once more suffered from a lack of run support and compiled a tape of 1–3 in Cleveland.^[ten]

2nd stint with Giants [edit]

In May 1902, the Giants sent catcher Frank Bowerman to persuade Taylor to return to the Giants.^{[v] [xiii] [14]} Bowerman sabbatum in the stands while Taylor was pitching and negotiated the terms of Taylor's return to the Giants past signing. Taylor recalled:

Frank sat in the grandstand and every time I walked out to the pitching mound he kept talking to me with his fingers. I kept shaking my caput "No", and Frank kept boosting the coin. Soon, I nodded my caput "Yes", and that night I was on my mode dorsum to New York with Frank.^[7]

Taylor appeared in 26 games for the 1902 Giants and had 22 complete games. Taylor's 7–15 tape for the 1902 Giants was again the result of playing for a remarkably weak-hitting squad, as the 1902 Giants finished in last identify in runs, hits and batting boilerplate.^[15] Even Christy Mathewson, who was Taylor's teammate on the 1902 Giants, registered a losing record in 1902 with an earned run average of ii.12 that was just marginally improve than Taylor's.^[fifteen]

In 1903, John McGraw took over as the managing director of the Giants. McGraw speedily turned the Giants into one of the best teams in the National League, with Taylor, Mathewson, and Iron Man Joe McGinnity as his pitching stars. Taylor had his about successful season in 1904. With strong support from a Giants squad that finished beginning in the National League in runs and hits, Taylor compiled a 21–xv tape in 1904. He was among the National League leaders that twelvemonth with 21 wins (4th), five shutouts (3rd), 1.033 walks plus hits per inning pitched (5th), 136 strikeouts (6th), and a .991 fielding percentage (second).^[10]

In 1905, Taylor helped lead the Giants to their second sequent National League pennant. Taylor appeared in 32 games and compiled a record of 16–9 with a 2.66 earned run average.^[10] Taylor was scheduled to pitch in the third game of the 1905 World Serial, but the game was cancelled because of rain, and Christy Mathewson pitched with an actress twenty-four hour period of rest when the Serial resumed.^[sixteen] (Mathewson pitched three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series.)

Although the Giants fell short of a third consecutive pennant in 1906, Taylor had another stiff year, compiling a 17–9 record and a two.20 earned run average. His earned run average that year was the lowest on a pitching staff that included Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson (two.97) and Joe McGinnity (two.25).^[17] Taylor also ranked 6th in the National League with a .654 winning percent in 1906.^[10]

In 1907, Taylor went 11–7 with a 2.42 earned run average and a ane.117 walks plus hits per inning pitched. He pitched his last major league flavour in 1908, compiling an 8–five record with a 2.33 earned run average.^[ten]

Small leagues [edit]

Taylor's baseball card from his time on the Bisons (T206 set up)

In February 1909, Taylor was sold to the Buffalo Bisons in the Eastern League.^[18] He won 32 games for Buffalo in 1909 and 1910 and played in the small-scale leagues from 1909 to 1915. In his final season of organized baseball, he compiled an 18–11 record for the Utica Utes in the New York State League.^[19]

Overall record [edit]

In 9 seasons in the major leagues, Taylor compiled an overall win–loss tape of 116–106 and 767 strikeouts. He threw 237 complete games and 21 shutouts. He had a career earned run average of 2.75 and a career walks plus hits per inning pitched of 1.267.^[10]

Deafness [edit]

Taylor was born profoundly deafened and communicated on-field with his teammates in sign language. He is credited with helping to expand and make universal the employ of sign language throughout the modern baseball infield, including but not limited to the apply of pitching signs. According to Sean Lahman in his biography of Taylor, "The Giants didn't merely add Taylor to their roster; they embraced him as a member of the family. Role player-manager George Davis learned sign linguistic communication and encouraged his players to do the aforementioned. John McGraw did too when he took over as Giants manager in July 1902."^[20] In Lawrence Ritter's 1966 book The Glory of Their Times, Taylor's teammate, Fred Snodgrass, recalled:

We could all read and speak the deafened-and-dumb sign linguistic communication, because Dummy Taylor took it every bit an barb if you lot didn't larn to converse with him. He wanted to exist one of us, to be a full-fledged member of the squad. If we went to the vaudeville testify, he wanted to know what the joke was, and somebody had to tell him. And then nosotros all learned. Nosotros practiced all the time.^[21]

During his eight seasons in Major League Baseball game, Taylor's success won acclaim in the deaf press, including The Silent Worker, and he became a role model and hero for the deafened customs.^[22] An commodity in The Sabbatum Evening Post noted that "wherever Taylor goes he will always exist visited by scores of the silent fraternity amid whom he is regarded every bit a prodigy."^[23]

On May sixteen, 1902, Taylor pitched against Dummy Hoy in Cincinnati, Ohio. The occasion was reported to be "the first and only fourth dimension two deaf professional athletes competed against one another."^[5] When Hoy came to bat for the first time, he signed to Taylor, "I'm glad to meet you."^[22] Hoy collected two hits off Taylor, only Taylor got the win as the Giants vanquish the Reds 5–3.^{[five] [24]}

The nickname "Dummy" was commonly applied to "deaf and dumb" (deaf-mute) baseball game players in the late 19th and early 20th century. Dummy Dundon and Dummy Hoy were the first professional person baseball players to receive the appellation. Others include Dummy Deegan, Dummy Leitner, Herbert Murphy and Dummy Stephenson. Taylor, Deegan, and Leitner all pitched for the 1901 New York Giants. Although he accepted the nickname in his playing days, Taylor noted in a 1945 interview that he and Dummy Hoy did not care for the nickname: "In the old days Hoy and I were called Dummy. It didn't injure us. It made us fight harder."^[23] Taylor'south popularity led to an outcry in the deafened press against the use of the nickname. Alexander Pach wrote an editorial in The Silent Worker in which he protested: "The highest salaried deaf human in the United States is the much heralded Dummy Taylor—I say Dummy only to serve to testify how contemptible the epithet looks."^{[23] [25]}

Taylor was inducted into the American Able-bodied Association of the Deaf Hall of Fame in 1953. He was besides inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.^[xvi]

Reputation for clowning [edit]

Taylor also developed a reputation as the clown on the Giants' team of the 1900s. In April 1905, The New York Times wrote virtually Taylor's efforts to maintain a light atmosphere in the Giants' locker room. The Times described Taylor'due south postal service-shower wrestling matches with Frank Bowerman and his displays of the Japanese martial art, jiu-jitsu, adding:

The "Dummy" is always smiling. No thing whether in the dressing room or on the practice field he is the clown of the crowd. If a joke is told he makes Bowerman repeat information technology to him with his fingers. So he emits a cacophonous cackle that passes for a laugh. "It is a good thing Taylor can't tell stories", remarked McGraw one morn, "or I never should exist able to become whatever work out of y'all fellows."^[26]

On one occasion, Taylor disagreed with the decision by umpire Bill Klem non to call the game as darkness brutal. Taylor returned to the clubhouse and came back onto the field wearing a fireman's oilskin and holding a lit lantern in a higher place his caput. Klem yelled at Taylor to get off the field, but Taylor could not hear and connected with his antics until Klem finally called the game.^{[27] [28]}

Honus Wagner later wrote about a game in which the Giants were complaining about the umpire'southward refusal to append a game due to rain. Wagner wrote, "So Dummy Taylor, ane of the Giant pitchers, went out to the third base coaching lines in his hip boots and a raincoat. Then the umpire did become mad. He chased Taylor out of the park, and it was funny to see Dummy trying to explain to him that he shouldn't be ejected."^[29] Taylor later recalled that the umpire, Johnston, "non simply chased me, just declared the game forfeited to the other club."^[7]

Giants' manager McGraw kept Taylor in the dugout when he was not pitching to distract the opposing pitcher. Taylor was able to emit a "rattling shriek" just as the opposing pitcher was nigh to release a pitch.^[thirty] Teammate Mike Donlin compared the noise to the "crazed shrieking of a jackass."^[20] Taylor biographer Sean Lahman wrote: "Umpire Charlie Zimmer one time got so irritated with the shrill sound that he ejected Taylor, perhaps the only instance of a deafened role player being tossed for being too noisy."^[twenty]

Taylor was also ejected from a baseball game by an umpire "for cursing him out in sign linguistic communication."^[31] According to some accounts, the umpire was Hank O'Day, who knew sign linguistic communication.^[5] Later on Taylor's tirade, O'Twenty-four hour period reportedly stepped in forepart of the plate and signed the following comments dorsum at Taylor: "Mind, smart guy ... I've spent all my spare time this past calendar week learning your language. Y'all can't call me a blind bat whatever more than. Now, become take a shower ... y'all're out of the game."^[32]

Bated from sign language, Taylor would permit information technology be known that he disagreed with an umpire's telephone call by belongings his nose and spinning the second finger of his other hand near his temple, demonstrating his belief that the ump was screwy.^[7] In June 1905, umpire Hank O'Day ejected Taylor for hand gestures that he interpreted to be an accusation that "I had wheels in my caput."^[33] A press account described the scene:

He strode angrily toward O'Day, and the grandstand observed a lightning move of the hands. Mystic symbol followed mystic symbol, and the oversupply kept guessing, what it meant. Suddenly O'Twenty-four hours, too, strode forward and majestically waved Mr. Taylor from the field. Notwithstanding aimlessly making rotary movements around his temples, "Dummy" dawdled away."^[33]

John McGraw recalled an occasion when he, too, was cursed out by Taylor: "In sign linguistic communication, Dummy consigned me to the hottest identify he could call up of—and he didn't mean St. Louis."^[23] Taylor was as well an accomplished juggler and would frequently put on "a grand juggling human action" in front of the Giants' dugout to amuse the fans.^[34]

Later years [edit]

After his retirement from baseball game, Taylor returned to Olathe and the Kansas State School For the Deafened, where he worked equally a teacher and coach. He too served as an umpire from 1915 to 1920, working games for the House of David and Union Giants.^[7] Every bit of January 1914, he was the physical director at the Kansas Schoolhouse for the Deaf.^[35] At the time of the 1915 Kansas State Census, he was living in Olathe with his wife, Della Chiliad. (Ramsey) Taylor.^[36] At the time of the 1920 U.s.a. Census, Taylor was living at the Kansas School for the Deafened where he was employed every bit the concrete instructor.^[37]

Taylor later moved to Iowa where he worked as a omnibus at the Iowa School for the Deafened. At the time of the 1925 Iowa State Census, he was living at the Iowa Schoolhouse for the Deaf in Lewis Township, Pottawattamie Canton, Iowa.^[38]

In 1927, several newspapers reported Taylor had died.^{[39] [xl]} Taylor issued a argument from his abode in Iowa, emphatically denying he was dead. Taylor's statement resulted in headlines in papers across North America such equally, "'Dummy' Taylor Denies being Dead."^{[41] [42]} It turned out Taylor had been confused with another deaf baseball pitcher, Lyman "Dummy" Taylor.^[43]

At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Taylor was nevertheless living at the Iowa Schoolhouse for the Deaf. His occupation was listed as a coach, and he was listed every bit living with his wife, Della Yard. Taylor, a teacher at the school.^[44]

Taylor subsequently was employed at the Illinois School for the Deafened in Jacksonville, Illinois. When he was interviewed in 1942 for a feature story in The Sporting News, Taylor was employed as a coach and "house male parent" at the Illinois School for the Deaf.^[7] One of Taylor'south pupils, Dick Sipek, went on to play baseball for the Cincinnati Reds.^[20]

Having outlived his first married woman, Della, who died in 1931, and second married woman Lenora Borjquest,^[45] Taylor married for the third time to Lina Belle Davis from Picayune Stone, Arkansas in August 1941.^[7]

Taylor also continued to be involved with professional baseball into the 1950s, umpiring local baseball games and doing scouting work for the Giants.^{[32] [46] [47] [48]}

In August 1958, Taylor died at Our Savior'due south Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois.^{[46] [49]} He was cached with his first wife, Della, at Prairie City Cemetery in Baldwin City, Kansas.^[45]

He was the last surviving member of the 1905 Earth Champion New York Giants.

Cultural references [edit]

Taylor is used every bit the narrator and hero of Darryl Brock's fictional account of his later life, Havana Heat.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Leap, Maryland: National Clan of the Deafened, p. 271 (PDF Archived April 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)
2. ^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deafened America, Silverish Jump, Maryland: National Association of the Deaf, pp. 291-294 (PDF Archived April 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)(PDF Archived April 24, 2012, at the Wayback Automobile)(PDF Archived April 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)
3. ^ Elysian Fields Quarterly website
4. ^ ^{a b} Census entry for Arnold B. Taylor and family unit, including Luther H. Taylor, age 4, born in Kansas. Ancestry.com and The Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Demography Place: Rural, Jefferson, Kansas; Whorl: 383; Family unit History Film: 1254383; Page: 304C; Enumeration Commune: 119; Image: 0608.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Tom Schott, Nick Peters (2003). The Giants Encyclopedia . Sports Publishing LLC. p. 241. ISBN9781582616933.
6. ^ Census entry for Luther Taylor, age x. Ancestry.com.. Kansas State Census Collection, 1855–1925 [database on-line]. 1895 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels Thousand-1 – Yard-169. Kansas State Historical Social club.
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f chiliad h i j} Harold Westward. Lanigan (Dec 24, 1942). "Dummy Taylor, Who Let Fastball and Curveball Speak for Him When With Giants, Puts His Story on Paper". The Sporting News. pp. five–6.
8. ^ Demography entry for Luther Taylor, resident of Jefferson County. Beginnings.com. Kansas State Census Drove, 1855–1925 [database on-line]. 1895 Kansas State Demography. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-169. Kansas Country Historical Guild.
9. ^ Demography entry for Luther Taylor, age 24, born in Kansas. Ancestry.com. 1900 United states of america Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Albany Ward 4, Albany, New York; Ringlet: T623_1004; Page: 1A; Enumeration Commune: xiv.
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Dummy Taylor". baseball-reference.com.
11. ^ "1901 New York Giants". baseball game-reference.com.
12. ^ "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Losses". baseball-reference.com.
13. ^ "Taylor to Play with New York" (PDF). The New York Times. May 8, 1902.
14. ^ "CUNNING OF "DUMMY" TAYLOR: Hemphill Tells Story of How He Was Shaken the Night Bowerman Kidnaped the Mute Twirler". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 26, 1903.
15. ^ ^{a b} "1902 New York Giants". baseball-reference.com.
16. ^ ^{a b} "Hall of Fame Inductees: Taylor, Luther 'Dummy'". Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. ^{[ dead link ]}
17. ^ "1906 New York Giants". baseball-reference.com.
18. ^ "'Dummy' Taylor Sold to Buffalo" (PDF). The New York Times. February iii, 1909.
19. ^ "Dummy Taylor Small-scale League Statistics". baseball-reference.com.
20. ^ ^{a b c d} Sean Lahman. "Dummy Taylor". Deaf Biography. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012.
21. ^ Lawrence South. Ritter (1966). The Celebrity of Their Times. Harper Collins. p. 101.
22. ^ ^{a b} Susan Burch. Signs of Resist8147-9894-2.
23. ^ ^{a b c d} R.A.R. Edwards (2009). No Dummies: Deafness, Baseball and American Culture. The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2007–2008. McFarland. pp. 120–129. ISBN978-0-7864-3569-2.
24. ^ Rebecca Goodman, Barrett J. Brunsman (2004). This Twenty-four hour period In Ohio History. Emmis Books. p. 154. ISBNone-57860-191-6.
25. ^ Pach, Alexander L. (May 1905). "With the Silent Workers". The Silent Worker. 17 (8): 124. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
26. ^ Tracey, Edwin (Apr 16, 1905). "At a Wearing apparel Rehearsal of the Champion Giants" (PDF). The New York Times.
27. ^ Harlan Due west. Nichols (May 6, 1954). "Dummy Taylor Once Halted Game With Lantern, Oilskin". The Victoria Advocate.
28. ^ "'Dummy' Taylor'due south Dramatics Didn't Go Over With Umpire". The News-Acceleration. May 6, 1954.
29. ^ Honus Wagner (March vi, 1936). "Rookies Ran the Gauntlet". The Telegraph-Herald.
30. ^ Frank Deford (2006). The Sometime Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball. Grove Printing. p. lxx. ISBN0-8021-4247-viii.
31. ^ Floyd Conner (2000). Baseball'due south Most Wanted . Potomac Books, Inc. ISBNi-57488-229-5.
32. ^ ^{a b} Sam Molen (May 1953). "Signing Off". Baseball Assimilate. ^{[ dead link ]}
33. ^ ^{a b} "Taylor and O'Day What Dummy Said". The Meriden Daily Journal. June 21, 1905.
34. ^ John Kieran (August 13, 1936). "Polo Basis Memories" (PDF). The New York Times.
35. ^ "Federal League Not Coming To New York" (PDF). The New York Times. January 3, 1914.
36. ^ Demography entry for Luther H. Taylor, age 39, and Mrs. Della M. Taylor, age 33. Ancestry.com. Kansas State Census Collection, 1855–1925 [database on-line]. 1915 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-271. Kansas State Historical Order.
37. ^ Census entry for Luther H. Taylor, historic period 43, born in Kansas. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Olathe Ward iii, Johnson, Kansas; Gyre: T625_535; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 113; Paradigm: 809.
38. ^ Demography entry for Luther H. Taylor. Ancestry.com. Iowa Land Census Collection, 1836–1925 [database on-line].
39. ^ "Dummy Taylor Former Fourth dimension Giant Pitcher, Dies". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 27, 1927.
40. ^ "Fans Pay Final Tribute to Taylor, Ex-Giant Hurler". The Telegraph-Herald. July 26, 1927.
41. ^ "Dummy Taylor Denies Being Dead". Ottawa Citizen. July 28, 1927.
42. ^ "Taylor Denies He'due south Dead: 'Dummy,' Old-Time Giants Bullpen, Claims Mistaken Identity" (PDF). The New York Times. July 28, 1927.
43. ^ "Taylor, Silent Role player, Called". Prescott Evening Courier. July 27, 1927.
44. ^ Census entry for Luther H. Taylor and Della K. Taylor. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Lewis, Pottawattamie, Iowa; Ringlet: 678; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 45; Prototype: 871.0.
45. ^ ^{a b} David Anderson. "Dummy Taylor". SABR Baseball Biography Projection.
46. ^ ^{a b} "Luther Taylor, 82, Dies: Deaf-Mute Pitched for the Giants From 1900 to 1908" (PDF). The New York Times. August 24, 1958.
47. ^ "Dummy Taylor Ends Umpire Career at 81". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 29, 1956.
48. ^ "Dummy Taylor of Giant Fame Signs as Picket". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 15, 1952.
49. ^ "Dummy Taylor, 82, Dies; Deaf-Mute Major Pitcher; With Giants, He Won 116 and Lost 102; Was in 45 Games, 45 Decisions in '01". The Sporting News. September 3, 1958. p. 38.

External links [edit]

• Career statistics and player data from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball game Reference (Minors)
• Dummy Taylor at Find a Grave

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