Waite Hoyt was one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade.
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20 Facts About Waite Hoyt
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Waite Hoyt was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
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Waite Hoyt soon returned to the majors, this time with the Boston Red Sox.
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Waite Hoyt pitched for eight years after leaving the Yankees in 1930, but did not consistently display similar levels of pitching dominance.
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Waite Hoyt had a total of 36 Major League teammates who would later be elected to the Hall of Fame.
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Waite Hoyt kept in shape during the off-season by playing semi-professional basketball.
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Waite Hoyt added to his repertoire by becoming an accomplished painter and writer.
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Waite Hoyt was heard on WMCA in New York City but left that station to begin "a nightly quarter-hour program" of sports news and commentary on WNEW in New York, beginning October 17,1938.
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Waite Hoyt became as much a celebrity with the Reds as he was while a player.
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Waite Hoyt was well known for calling games exclusively in past tense, which was and still is unusual for sportscasting.
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Waite Hoyt was well known as the pre-eminent authority on Ruth; they were teammates from 1921 to 1930, and Ruth long counted Hoyt in his small inner circle of friends.
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Waite Hoyt shared radio play-by-play duties for the 1953 All-Star Game on the Mutual Network and the second 1960 All-Star Game on NBC.
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Waite Hoyt called the 1961 World Series for NBC Radio, during a time when it was common for the primary broadcasters for participating teams to be used in network broadcasts of the Fall Classic.
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Waite Hoyt was one of the first professional athletes to develop a successful career in broadcasting and his name frequently appears on "all-time best" broadcaster lists.
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Waite Hoyt retired from full-time broadcasting work in 1965, though he later made appearances on both radio and television, including the color commentary for the Reds telecasts in 1972.
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Waite Hoyt was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by its Veterans Committee in 1969.
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Waite Hoyt married Dorothy in 1922; the couple was divorced ten years later.
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Longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous, during the 1978 Old-Timers' Day game, Waite Hoyt said wistfully that he would have won 300 games if he had stopped drinking during his playing days.
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Waite Hoyt died of heart failure while preparing for what he realized would be his final visit to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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