Thursday, August 5, 2010

"Signs of the Time" New Documentary

This newly-released documentary film left me moved with tears about the real time for the society at large to realize the true contributions of deaf baseball player with the creation of hand signals entirely changed the baseball games all over the world -

http://www.signsofthetimemovie.com/dvd/2/

Here is the past campaign to get the Baseball Hall of Fame to pay the formal honor to "Dummy" Hoys -
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65084

http://www.dummyhoy.com/introduction/

http://hubpages.com/hub/YOURE-OUT-The-orgin-of-Umpire-Signals

Here is an impressive biography of Dummy Hoys -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_Hoy which Hoys' children ended up became judge, the House of Representative, etc....

For many decades, deaf people knew about the origins of football huddle begun at the National Deaf-Mute College (Gallaudet University now), Washington, DC, but more and more historians finally discovered about deaf people created the "football huddle" -

http://fookembug.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/invented-the-american-football-huddle-by-deaf-football-player/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddle

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason

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