"Dummy" Hoy images

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Posted By: Linda Levitan

I'm working on the first full-scale biography of William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy, and am collecting images for the book. (I actually own very few.) If you have access to high-quality scanners, and can accommodate high-dpi scanning, I can receive E-mailed or disked images. In particular, I'd like to find three Old Judge N172 images: Hoy catching a fly ball, Hoy squatting to field a ground ball, and the other pose I've never seen. I already have reproductions of the familiar shot of Hoy tanding with his bat touching a base, and the shot of Hoy batting. I have reproductions of the squatting and fly-ball images...but both have been retouched, since the originals were used as file headshots.

One image I'd love to obtain is one showing Hoy with "Dummy" Taylor at a 1942 Labor Day Weekend Deaf-softball tourney in Akron. (Both are wearing suits, but standing side by side.) The only version I have is a rephotographing from Ralph LinWeber's "American Deaf Softball Guide," and the quality of the image is, to put it mildly, dreadful. (It was blurred and fuzzy as published in the softball guide, and the rephotographing doesn't enhance its clarity.)

I have some team shots (from the archives of "Sporting News" and National Baseball Library, etc.), but welcome other authentic vintage images. Any publishable images you share, virtually and otherwise, will be properly credited.

If you're interested in participating, or in joining the "Dummy" Hoy Committee, please visit the "'Dummy' Hoy Homeplate" at www.dummyhoy.com, and get in touch with us.

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Posted By: Ben

and then there were two...

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Posted By: Julie

they ain't GOOD enough! Howe do you set your scanner for the best and clearest scans? and, preferably, not make them HUGE?

Ahoy, Linda! Are you collecting, or just publishing?

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Posted By: jay behrens

your scanner should have some way to change the quality of the scan. 72dpi is the default for basic web publishing. 300dpi for printing and there shoudl me be a way to manuallt set the dpi aside from presets. Your dpi is lmited by the amount of RAM your computer has, but a 300dpi scan should be good enough. No way to shrink the scans. The higher the dpi, the larger the scan looks on screen

Jay

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Posted By: Julie

Hope so. Thanks for the help, jAY AND eRIK (WHO E-MAiled me).

[Linda Levitan]

Collecting (I think we have one card), but focusing on obtaining high-resolution photos for the purpose of publication. And we do need HR illustrations and photos. All contributors will be properly credited.

[oldjudge]

Oshkosh image#1

[oldjudge]

Oshkosh #2

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Oshkosh #2

Great cabinet cards, Jay. Thanks for sharing and hope all is well. If you send pics to my email I can make them larger and post them even bigger..Those are great looking images. Talk soon.....

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Oshkosh #2

A bit bigger, thanks for sending them and helping out!!

[GasHouseGang]

Is there a list of names to go with the second image?

[oldjudge]

Yes

[JeremyW]

Incredible photos, Jay. Thanks for sharing.

[MuddyMules]

Hoy N172

[Kenny Cole]

Here's one

[RUKen]

Here's a newspaper photo of him in his 1899 Louisville uniform (Louisville Courier-Journal, April 25, 1899):

[deadballfreaK]

I have been working on restoring and colorizing old turn of the century baseball photos for a year and half. I hope to issue a card set. Here are two I've done of Hoy.

[clydepepper]

Can anyone give me directions on how to post a page-sized photo?
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Thanks
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[batsballsbases]

Cameo Pepsin 1896 Hoy

[Leon]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

Can anyone give me directions on how to post a page-sized photo?
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Thanks
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Most times a full page needs to be hosted on a different site and then loaded here. If you try to upload it to this site it will come out smaller (on purpose). I use my personal website to host almost everything I post which needs to be larger or needs to be read.