Waite Hoyt

Waite Hoyt career pitching statistics for Major League, Minor League, and postseason baseball

'He appeared almost casual on the mound, never creating the impression that he was bearing down with any great amount of sweat or strain,' Tom Meany wrote. 'Games when the chips were down brought out the best in him.' Waite Hoyt first signed a professional contract with the New York Giants as a 15-year old at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. But Hoyt played just one game for the Giants before embarking on a 21-year career with seven teams. Hoyt made his name with the Yankees, helping them to win three World Series titles in the 1920s.

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Right-hander “Schoolboy” Waite Hoyt signed an option contract with the New York Giants as a 15-year-old in 1915. The following season he began a 23-year-career in Organized Baseball, including parts of 21 seasons in the big leagues, where he posted a 237-182 record and logged 3,762⅓ innings. Most remembered as a member of the New York Yankees in the Roaring Twenties, Hoyt averaged 18 wins and 253 innings per season over an eight-year stretch (1921-1928) as the Bronx Bombers won six pennants and three World Series titles for manager Miller Huggins.

Career: 237-182 (59th), 3.59 ERA, 1206 SO, P, HOF in 1969, Yankees/Pirates/... 1918-1938, t:R, 1x W Leader, born in Unite. 1899, died 1984, Schoolboy

Waite Charles Hoyt (September 9, 1899 – August 25, 1984) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.