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John J. McGraw says: Taylor [a deaf mute] turned to me and began telling me on his fingers what he thought of [umpire] O'Day. All of the Giants had learned the deaf-mute finger language and the players on the bench laughed at the terrible things he was saying about the umpire. Suddenly O'Day flew into a rage, apparently. “That'll cost you $25 !” he yelled, and then, to the astonishment of Taylor and all the rest of us, he started using his fingers. “You are out of the game—get off the field,” he said in the deaf-mute language. The umpire had understood everything that Taylor had said about him. It developed that O’Day had a relative who was a deaf-mute and he had learned the finger language perfectly.”

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