Career
He is the older brother of two other major league players, Andy High, and Charlie High. In his two years playing for the Tigers, he couldn"t break into the regular line-up, but played quite often compared to the existing trio of Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, and Bobby Veach. Before the 1915 season, on February 4, he was sold to the Yankees along with Wally Pipp, reportedly for $5000 each.
He spent the next four seasons with the Yankees, becoming a regular in the line-up for three of them.
After playing in just seven games for the Yankees in 1918, he left professional baseball altogether, and was working at Sparrows Point, a shipyard outside of Baltimore, Maryland, when Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee expressed interest in services, in fact, had discussed trade options with the Yankees earlier in the year. Several possible reasons exist for why this was not able to happen, but the deal did not come to fruition, and Hugh never returned to the Majors.
Hugh died at the age of 75 in Saint Louis, Missouri, and is interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery.