© 2026 Dummy Hoy Hall of Fame Campaign
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The People Behind
the Campaign.

Led by advocates from the worlds of baseball, film, and the Deaf community — united by a single belief: the Hall of Fame is incomplete without William Ellsworth Hoy.

The Board
David Keinath
Campaign Leadership
David Keinath
Campaign Director & Co-Founder
The driving force behind the campaign. Co-founder of Silent Visual Media — a two-thirds Deaf-owned organization dedicated to elevating Deaf representation in the entertainment industry. Executive producer on films including The Hammer and Silent Natural (2020). A graduate of NTID, David brings decades of experience bridging the hearing and Deaf communities.
“Hoy’s story belongs in Cooperstown. It belongs to every Deaf child who has ever loved this game.”
Albert Pujols
Baseball Ambassador
Albert Pujols
Board Member & Baseball Hall of Famer
Three-time NL MVP, two-time World Series champion, and 11-time All-Star. Pujols retired in 2022 with 700 career home runs and 3,384 career hits, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2025. His support signals to the Historical Overview Committee that the baseball community believes Hoy’s time has come.
“The Hall of Fame should reflect the full story of this game — and Dummy Hoy is part of that story.”
Troy Kotsur
Cultural Ambassador
Troy Kotsur
Board Member & Academy Award Winner
Academy Award-winning actor and one of the most celebrated Deaf performers in Hollywood history. Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2022 for CODA — the first Deaf man to win a competitive acting Oscar. His involvement brings the Deaf community’s stake in this campaign to a global stage.
“What Dummy Hoy did in 1888 — showing up, competing, and changing the game — that’s the same fight we’re still fighting today.”
Advisors
Marty Brennaman
Campaign Advisor
Marty Brennaman
Hall of Fame Broadcaster
Marty Brennaman spent more than four decades as one of baseball’s most respected voices, calling the game with a level of clarity, honesty, and reverence that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame. His support of Dummy Hoy’s candidacy reflects a deep respect for the game’s forgotten pioneers and the stories that deserve to be preserved alongside its legends.
“You cannot tell the story of baseball without telling the story of Dummy Hoy.”
Steve Sandy
Campaign Advisor
Steve Sandy
Chief Historian for Dummy Hoy film
Steve Sandy has spent a lifetime doing what Cooperstown hasn’t — preserving the definitive physical record of Dummy Hoy’s life and career. His private collection stands as the most comprehensive archive of Hoy memorabilia in existence, and has become the evidentiary backbone of this campaign. Without Steve’s decades of dedication, much of what we know — and can prove — about Dummy Hoy would simply be gone. He isn’t just a collector. He’s the reason this story can be told.
The Vote Is Coming
December 2027.
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