 Besides having covered Boston Beaneater baseball for the "Boston Post", he was a member of the Boston Elks lodge, whose members included fellow theatrical-sports buff Nat Goodwin.In early 1888, Hoyt was responsible for the stage debut of Boston Elk-Boston Beaneater Mike "King" Kelly in his "A Rag Baby", and for the first-ever star billing given to a ballplayer on the stage.The latter took place in 1895, with longtime Chicago diamond star Cap Anson drawing the distinction through his "A Runaway Colt".