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Daiton Fuller Named to Baseball
Hall of Fame

 

Baseball fans out West will be
pleased to note the recognition given
an old-timer last summer, when a4
graduate of the Kansas School was
honored in his home town, News-
paper accounts were as follows:

Dalton (Dummy) Fuller’s name _ is
among the nine baseball veterans of
Kansas, who have been nominated by
the Kansas Old Time Baseball Play
ers Association for the annual Kansas
Baseball Hall of Fame _ selection,
which will be a feature of. the annual,
Kansas state semi-pro tournament
again this year. Fans attending the
first game of the tourney: will select
three men from the nine named on
ballots that will be preseaten at the
gate to the park.

Fuller, who has made his home in,
Wichita for many years, started his
professional career with the Joplin.
Miners in the old Missouri Valley,
league at the age of 17 years, where)
he performed as a catcher and in-|
fielder before coming to Wichita to}
settle down as one of the most bril-
liant semi-pro infielders in the his-|
tory of the city.. Although handicap-|
ped by the inability to hear or speak, |
there was never a time. when the

“Dummy’’ failed to catch a signal or |
come up with the correct play, in
games that were hotly contested
overa period of many years on lucal
diamonds.