Lost Memoir Sparks Hoyt Family Reunion
COOPERSTOWN—As many as 20 survivors of Yankees ace pitcher Waite “Schoolboy” Hoyt will gather on Thursday, August 8 at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in an improbable family reunion sparked by the long-dead Hall-of-Famer’s newly released memoir.
“That Waite Hoyt’s memoir would be published 40 years after his passing was unlikely enough,” said Tim Manners, co-author with Hoyt of “Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero,” published by University of Nebraska Press this past April. “To have the book bring together a divided family is nothing short of remarkable.”
Indeed, many of the Hoyts have never met before and some were wary of a book that is now attracting them to Cooperstown, where Manners will speak about “Schoolboy” as part of the Hall of Fame’s “Summer Author Series.”
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