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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Waite Hoyt
Waite Hoyt
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Waite Hoyt was born on Saturday, September 9, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Hoyt was 18 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 24, 1918, with the New York Giants. His height is 6 foot and his weight 180 pounds.
Hoyt was a mainstay on the pitching staff of the great Yankee teams of the 1920s. The righthander pitched for New York from 1921 to early 1930 and had a record of 157-98 in pinstripes. He was 23-7 in 1928 and also led the AL, the American League with eight saves. In 1927 he was 22-7, and he won 19 in 1921 and 1922. In 1927 he led the AL in 22 wins, 2.63 ERA, the Earned Run Average and .759 winning percentage. He reached double figures in wins from 1921 to 1931 and in 1934. He spent the last seven years of his career in the NL, the National League which he led in relief wins in 1934 for 7 times and 1935 for 5 times.
He was 2-0 in 1928 and 2-1 in 1921, tying Christy Mathewson's record with a 0.00 ERA, the Earned Run Average in three games started. He ranks high in numerous WS lifetime categories, including win 6 for fifth, losses 4 for seventh, strikeouts 49 for eighth, games 12 for seventh, and innings pitched 84 for fifth. In 1941 Hoyt moved to the broadcast booth and was the voice of the Reds until his retirement in 1965. Waite Hoyt was voted into the 1969 Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. The White Sox and Yankees split a doubleheader with Chicago's 6–3 triumph in game one stopping New York's 8-game win streak.
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