A Father's Day Blockbuster for Baseball Fans
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Yankees legend Waite Hoyt's new memoir carries a fatherly message
LINCOLN, Neb., June 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was only 23 and didn't grasp being a father," Hall of Fame Yankees ace pitcher Waite Hoyt wrote in "Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero" (University of Nebraska Press), his newly released memoir. "I handled our babies like they were Haviland china. I would have liked to have known what to do but felt it was outside my domain."
He continued: "It's like they used to say in the old days. One fellow asks another, 'What do you know about electricity?' And he says, 'I know enough to leave it alone.'"
Hoyt didn't necessarily have the greatest role model, notes "Schoolboy" co-author Tim Manners. "Hoyt's father, Addison Hoyt, was perhaps a bit of a man-child himself," Manners says. "While he did hold down a steady job, that didn't happen until after his own dreams of a baseball career and then a vaudeville actor were dashed."
Perhaps because of this, Manners suggests that "Schoolboy" Hoyt's astonishing life was punctuated by father figures, of a sort:
-- John McGraw. The legendary New York Giants manager, McGraw's parenting
style could only be described as "tough love." He certainly saw
potential in young Waite Hoyt and launched his career. Even when McGraw
yelled at him or criticized his pitching style as "too pretty," Hoyt was
thrilled by the attention.
-- Ed Barrow. The Yankees general manager himself apparently aspired to be
Hoyt's father-in-law, introducing his young star to his beautiful
daughter and subtly encouraging their marriage. Hoyt was already
engaged, however, and Barrow graciously offered to pay for their
honeymoon.
-- Miller Huggins. If Hoyt had a true father figure other than his actual
father it was Miller Huggins, the Yankees' manager. Huggins was
convinced that Hoyt was the best pitcher in baseball but could only
realize his potential if he gave up performing on vaudeville during the
off season.
-- Herb Heekin. He may not have been a father figure exactly, but Herb
Heekin was arguably the most consequential mentor in Waite Hoyt's life.
It was Heekin who introduced Hoyt to Alcoholics Anonymous and gave him
the perspective he needed to put his life permanently back on track.
In the epilogue to his memoir, Hoyt recounted a conversation with his son Chris in which he raised the question of why youngsters failed to learn from the mistakes of their elders. He concluded that he hoped those who came after him "might have learned a whole lot from my life's choices, good, bad, and indifferent, just as I could have learned more than I did from others who made mistakes."
Fatherly wisdom indeed.
Schoolboy is available in time for Father's Day on Amazon and at other fine retailers.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/schoolboyhoyt
Book Website:
http://schoolboyhoyt.com
University of Nebraska Press:
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496236791/
Contact:
Tim Manners
(203) 227-6004
378712@email4pr.com
http://schoolboyhoyt.com
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SOURCE University of Nebraska Press
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