Ace pitcher of the 1927 New York #Yankees, beloved radio voice of the #Cincinnati #Reds, and co-author with Tim Manners of “Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero,” (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) http://schoolboyhoyt.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mu5bisksnc27“In 1924, there was a wave of enthusiasm for the Washington ballclub and Walter Johnson, its great pitcher, who had never been in a World Series. Everybody, it seemed, wanted to win for Walter Johnson.”28 Aug 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5bisksnc27https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mu2qwdi6yc2h“I possessed every requisite I could ask for, physical or mental, yet I was still far short of my goal or at least the peak Miller Huggins repeatedly said I should attain: league leader, winner of 25 games.”27 Aug 2026 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2qwdi6yc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtyafn72j225“Colonel Ruppert says to me, ‘Dat lousy pitching you do, dat’s de problem, Hoyts. Dat 2 to 1 pitching. Why de hell don’t you vin ‘em 12-2, like Joe Bush?’”26 Aug 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyafn72j225https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtvqa5fhus2i“I am so deeply thankful for the way others helped me build my life and how they came to my assistance when I needed it the most … I have embedded their love into the very depths of my soul.” - Schoolboy Waite Hoyt (pictured: Yankees ace and Reds announcer Waite Hoyt with fans)25 Aug 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvqa5fhus2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mttdwzpc5k2y“I’ll never forget watching the first Red Sox batter, Harry Hooper, drape the bat over his left shoulder. I thought, ‘What a peculiar batting style. Nobody in the National League would hit like that’.”24 Aug 2026 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttdwzpc5k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtqpuqowos2s“I wound up the 1931 season winning 10 games and losing three for Connie Mack and the Athletics in half a season. That was good pitching, even though I was out of shape.”23 Aug 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqpuqowos2shttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mto4mrra722y“Ty Cobb reached out and, with a great flourish, removed Wally’s cap and started to rub his head. The usually cheerful Wally, with muscles like Atlas, was infuriated. He uncoiled a vicious uppercut, and Cobb went down like a statue knocked off a pedestal.”22 Aug 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mto4mrra722yhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtloe2auqc2e“Charles Albert ‘Chief’ Bender was before my time, and I knew him more as a sensational rifle shot than a pitcher. He worked for Winchester Arms, I believe, and used to give shooting exhibitions.”21 Aug 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtloe2auqc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtj5vmxke227 “A hitter prizes his bat more than he does his watch.”20 Aug 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtj5vmxke227https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtgmcxxrs22d“Like all champions, Frankie Frisch was strong in desire. It was built into him, and he could not quit, even if he knew he had no chance.”19 Aug 2026 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgmcxxrs22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mte5isfsxs2y“A Western Union telegram was lying on the seat with other mail: BURLEIGH ASKED ME TO ADVISE YOU HE IS GIVING YOU UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE TODAY STOP ... WE COULD NOT REACH YOU ON TELEPHONE. JOHN McDONALD.” - Waite Hoyt, describing how Burleigh Grimes informed him of the end of his baseball career.18 Aug 2026 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte5isfsxs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mtbm5dbcl223“I expected Babe Ruth’s death, having followed the hospital bulletins all that afternoon. But it was just as much of a sickening jolt as if I hadn’t known it was coming. It was as if someone had chipped part of my life away.”17 Aug 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbm5dbcl223https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mt75wboroc22“In Chicago, they renovated Comiskey Park by adding a second tier to the right-field stands. The architects said, ‘No one will ever hit a ball on that roof. Not even Babe Ruth.’ The first time at bat, the Babe hit a home run right over the newly constructed grandstand.”16 Aug 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt75wboroc22https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mt4kobpuok2j“Soon after I joined the Red Sox, Babe Ruth was assigned one of his now-infrequent hurling chores. He chanted in a rapid monotone: ‘I'll pitch high inside and low outside. High inside and low outside.’ Ed Barrow ended the ritual, saying, ‘Aw, forget it, Babe. Just go out and beat ‘em.’ Babe did.”15 Aug 2026 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4kobpuok2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mszzyj7ru227“Most satisfying to me and most packed with emotion was the roller-coaster ride the Cincinnati Reds took to the 1961 pennant, when they dipped from the heights to the very depths from week to week, and then roared back to the top again with the vigor of champions.”14 Aug 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszzyj7ru227https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msxjztalxc2p“Even losing becomes, perversely, a very great feature. The intense disappointments that you suffer sometimes make you feel you’re alive just as much as sticking a pin in you makes you jump out of a lethargy.”13 Aug 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxjztalxc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msuzebtrlk2w“I found Christy Mathewson an unfriendly man, who had no time to waste on teenage boys like me who admired him. Perhaps his aloofness was prompted by his expressed theory that a pitcher is not a baseball player.”12 Aug 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msuzebtrlk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mssj3apzts2r“The Yankees’ 1928 season was very much a repeat of 1927. My pitching, I discovered, was a matter of concentration, and I stuck to my plan of demolishing each batter as if he were the last out of the game.”11 Aug 2026 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssj3apzts2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mspymsljds2i“The Yanks felt they couldn’t trade Babe for money. Low in ability, high in salary, and with unlimited expectations in the official category, Babe was not a good risk.”10 Aug 2026 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mspymsljds2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msnifptgwk2o“I know I am not the man I was, but it is good to look back and think of what I once could accomplish.” – Schoolboy Waite Hoyt (pictured: Waite Hoyt throwing a ceremonial first pitch at an old-timer’s game at Yankee Stadium. Claire Ruth and Eleanor Gehrig are seated to his left).09 Aug 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msnifptgwk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mskuu2a6kk2j“My family was greatly dismayed over whether I should play baseball or turn whatever ability I had to some other occupation.”08 Aug 2026 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskuu2a6kk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msihuubjyc2m​​”At age 83, my sorrow comes from introspection, a consciousness long-delayed that all my life I have been a performer – a good one, doubtlessly – but never a leader.” - Waite Hoyt07 Aug 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msihuubjyc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msfx3hhimk22“Fans made fun of my ‘metronome’ wind-up, with the intent of unsettling me, but eventually I welcomed this as an acknowledgement that some real, live people out there were conscious of my existence.”06 Aug 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msfx3hhimk22https://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msdfg4skbs2q“It was a remarkable baseball year in 1923. Between the 1922 and 1923 seasons, I had good years for the Yankees.”05 Aug 2026 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdfg4skbs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3msavb2rt322n“Harry Coveleski -- Stan’s brother-- played in Shamokin in the Central Pennsylvania League at one time. He was coming around third base to start for home, and somebody hit him on the jaw with a rock and knocked him out cold.”04 Aug 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msavb2rt322nhttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3ms6fsd7z5c2i“Harry Heilmann had his ups and downs in baseball, but always fought adversity with a chest full of courage. With Cincinnati in 1930, he batted .333 in 142 games, even though his left hand was crippled by arthritis.”03 Aug 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6fsd7z5c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3ms3tko5jqc2t"Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player that throws a ball game... shall ever play professional baseball." - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis02 Aug 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3tko5jqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mrzfwnytgk2t“Dazzy Vance was in Bob Feller’s class as a fastball pitcher and, like Feller, he had a paralyzing curve. Likely as not, his fastball would come steaming in instead, and you had no time to swing.”01 Aug 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzfwnytgk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mrwtu5hyys2p“When I made my second appearance in a big-league game, I pitched a complete 12-inning game for the Boston Red Sox versus Ty Cobb and the Detroit Tigers, winning 2-1. It was my first win, and I was walking on a cloud that night.”31 Jul 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwtu5hyys2phttps://bsky.app/profile/waite-hoyt.bsky.social/post/3mrucfuw45k2n“If you ever saw Babe Ruth in a straw hat, you’d never want to see him in a straw hat a second time. The cap was much more becoming.”30 Jul 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:e7shk47ffzugnjyipaibcdpo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrucfuw45k2n