The Talented Misters Hoy and Taylor: The Remarkable Journeys of Baseball's Greatest Deaf Players

They couldn’t hear the roar of the crowd—but the baseball world heard them loud and clear. Meet the deaf baseball stars who rewrote the rules.

Billy Hoy and Luther Taylor endure as two of the most fascinating—and unknown—players in 150-plus years of major-league baseball. At the turn of the twentieth century, both men were marque stars, with their names often in headlines and their exploits admired by fans and teammates alike. And yet about the most anyone knew of Hoy or Taylor was they were...