A Battery of Songs

Overview

Famed Major League baseball pitcher Waite Hoyt, playing for the New York Yankees in 1930, in addition to being a mortician in the off-season, was also a singer of note, appearing often on New York radio and in this Vitaphone short. He teams with songwriter J. Fred Coots, and an uncredited boop-a-doop singer in this nine-minute Vitaphone short.