Luther Haden Taylor was born on February 21, 1875,  in Oskaloosa, Kansas. Taylor is a legend in baseball having played with the New York Giants before the franchise moved to San Francisco. He played with the team for nine years, from 1900 to 1908, while the team was still at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan. As a pitcher, he helped the Giants win their first World Series of the modern baseball era in 1905. For his career Taylor was 115-103, with a 2.77 earned run average. Taylor was devastating on the mound because of his unorthodox corkscrew delivery. His best pitch was a destructive drop ball.

Luther Haden Taylor was known by his teammates and the public as Dummy Taylor, because he was a deaf and mute. Taylor could not hear and he could not speak. In the early 1900s deaf and mute ind…