[3] Hinson's first and most successful pinch running appearance came on April 19 against the New York Yankees, in the first game of a home doubleheader at Fenway Park.

[4] With the Yankees leading, 6–3, Johnnie Heving led off the bottom of the eighth inning as a pinch hitter for the pitcher; he singled, and Hinson entered the game to run for him.

[5] In the top of the ninth inning, pitcher Red Ruffing entered the game in place of Hinson, and held the Yankees scoreless to earn a save.

Other teams have occasionally kept pinch-running specialists for brief stretches, such as Matt Alexander, Allan Lewis, Don Hopkins and Larry Lintz.

[3] During and after his baseball career, he served as a police officer in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was shot in the hip in November 1930 while attempting to capture a burglary suspect.