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	Tris Speaker
		Despite spending most of his career in Ty Cobb's considerable shadow, Tris Speaker's.345 lifetime batting average and revolutionary defensive play made him one of Cobb's few rivals as the greatest player of the 1910s.
		Speaker's specialty was hitting doubles—he led the league eight times and still holds the career mark with 793.
		Tris Speaker is the only major league player to have three batting streaks of 20 or more games in a single season (1912).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/tr/Tris_Speaker.html (225 words)

	Tris Speaker
		Tris Speaker, the "Gray Eagle," is quite possibly one of the most underrated players ever to play baseball.
		Sometimes considered a fifth infielder, Speaker played Center Field extremely shallow and read where the batter was going to hit the ball as soon as he saw the batter swing.
		Speaker retired in 1928 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1939.
	members.aol.com /stealth792/speaker/speaker.html (197 words)

	Tris Speaker Obituary
		When Tris Speaker was a young cowboy in Texas, he suffered a broken right arm in a fall from a horse and became a left-handed pitcher.
		Speaker lost with.383 to the Tiger star’s.410 in 1912 and with.365 to.390 in 1913.
		Tris Speaker hit.380 or better five times during his Major League career, but only won one batting title ever — in 1916 when he hit.386.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /deaths/tris_speaker_obituary.shtml (1301 words)

	Tris Speaker \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Speaker and Ty Cobb were alleged to have participated, and AL president Ban Johnson secured their "resignations" as managers to protect baseball's image.
		Although Speaker played only seven full seasons with Boston, he is second on the club all-time in both triples (106) and stolen bases (266), and is third behind Wade Boggs and Ted Williams in batting (.337).
		Speaker is also the all-time ML leader in outfield assists (448) and double plays (139), as well as the AL leader in outfield putouts (6,706).
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Speaker_Tris.stm (3603 words)

	NetShrine - Ruminations - February 12, 2006
		In summary, in Tris Speaker, we have someone who ranks as one of the best ever (if not the best) with the glove at his playing position and who is one of the ten best batters to ever wield a stick at the plate - in the entire history of baseball.
		Speaker's personal shortcomings should not be the reason why his baseball skill is not properly remembered among the masses.
		Tris Speaker - The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is keenly researched and saturated with facts (both on Speaker and baseball-related items during his time).
	www.netshrine.com /tris_speaker_book.html (1101 words)

	Tris Speaker - BR Bullpen
		Speaker's Hall of Fame plaque, while not settling the issue, calls him the "greatest center fielder of his day".
		Speaker was almost always among the league leaders in offensive categories - he ranks # 6 all-time with 346 points on the Gray Ink Hall of Fame appraisal test, (ahead of Babe Ruth but behind Ty Cobb).
		Speaker would, however, be joined on the 1920 World Series champion Cleveland Indians by former Boston teammate Smokey Joe Wood, who had converted at that point from pitcher to outfielder.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Tris_Speaker (652 words)

	Tris Speaker - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker’s turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball’s dead-ball era.
		Tris Speaker explores the colorful life behind the statistics, introducing readers to a complex and contradictory Texan whose cowboy mentality never left him as he brawled his way through two decades in the big leagues.
		Speaker’s career put him in the company of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Honus Wagner, and in describing it Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing account of some of the best baseball ever played—and some of the darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a career.
	unp.unl.edu /bookinfo/4922.html (929 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-tumble Life of a Baseball Legend - Timothy M. Gay - Product Details ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Speaker was a contradictory figure, a son of the South, an unrecontructed reb in early 20th century Boston, who grew with the years.
		Speaker is not idealized in this study- he was on the fringes, and sometimes the center, of baseball scandals as troubling as the Black Sox episode.
		Tris Speaker at that time was included in the pantheon of the greatest, a small notch below Cobb, Ruth, and Dimaggio as an outfielder and hitter.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0803222068-locale-us.html (1935 words)

	Tim Gay on Tris Speaker - ROYAL ROOTERS
		Speaker won more games with his glove than with his bat and he still was a fearsome hitter.
		Speaker was especially brilliant at balls hit over his head and also at those hit in the gaps.
		Speaker’s throws had a natural left to right curve on them but he always figured out how much it would bend and the throw would be right over the base or the plate.
	www.redsoxnation.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=20228 (3672 words)

	Legends of the Game
		Tris loved to play ball as a kid and was a natural righthander.
		The captain and pitcher of his high school team, Tris developed a natural curve ball and stated that he always allowed for a curve in his throws from the outfield when he made it to professional ball.
		Speaker's assist total was truly amazing as Tris threw out 30 or more batters in 4 different seasons.
	www.deadball.com /speaker.htm (668 words)

	Wikinfo \| Tris Speaker
		Tristram E. Speaker (April 4, 1888 - December 8, 1958) was a professional baseball player and one of the greatest center fielders of all time.
		He was the seventh player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937, receiving 165 votes of 201 ballots cast.
		Despite spending most of his career in Ty Cobb's considerable shadow, Tris Speaker's.344 lifetime batting average and revolutionary defensive play made him one of Cobb's few rivals as the greatest player of the 1910s.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tris_Speaker (300 words)

	Tris Speaker \| The BASEBALL Page
		Speaker was involved in one of the most controversial trades of his time and later led the Cleveland Indians to their first World Series title, while serving as player/manager.
		Tris Speaker is the only player to have three hitting streaks of 20 games or more in one season (1912).
		Speaker had suffered an injuury, and by the time he healed, the A's were on the winning track with Mule Haas in center field.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /players/speaktr01.php (1575 words)

	Light, Lens & Heart Virtual Exhibit: Making Their Mark - Tris Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Perhaps Tris Speaker did not receive the recognition he deserved – he lived in a time before baseball games were broadcoast on radio or television.
		When Tris broke his right arm at the age of ten, he taught himself to throw and bat left.
		Tris came to Peterborough with the Tris Speaker All Stars, in 1923, and played against the ‘Toronto Wellingtons’ at Riverside Park in Ashburnham.
	www.pcma.ca /mmarkspeaker.htm (142 words)

	sla book review: tris speaker
		Tris "Spoke" Speaker, who was born in Hubbard, Texas on April 4, 1888, made his major league debut on September 14, 1907 for the Boston Red Sox.
		A son of Texas who was sympathetic to the Confederacy and a card-carrying member of the KKK, Spoke, also rabidly anti-Catholic and a compulsive gambler, wound up in Boston, a city, Gay notes, that was "contemptuous of anything and anyone with roots west or south of the Charles River" (54).
		A true hero of the dead-ball era, Speaker was most assuredly a man full of contradictions, but he was also a graceful and hard-working ballplayer, a natural hitter who reimagined the way centerfield could and should be played.
	www.uta.edu /english/sla/br060418.html (757 words)

	The Official Site of Tris Speaker
		Even with an awesome lifetime batting average of.344, Tris Speaker is invariably remembered for his superb defensive skills.
		Speaker holds one of the most impressive defensive records with 139 double plays as an outfielder.
		Speaker was quickly given this dubious nickname by teammates upon their learning of his upbringing in the plains of Texas.
	www.cmgww.com /baseball/speaker/biography.htm (217 words)

	Boston Red Sox @ fenwayfanatics.com: Red Sox Legends: Tris Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tristram "Tris" Speaker began his storied career as an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox in 1907, when his contract was purchased from the Houston club of the North Texas League.
		Two years later, in 1909, Speaker became the everyday center fielder for Boston and is remembered today more for his superb defensive skills, despite a batting average of.337, during his nine years with the Red Sox, third in team history behind only fellow Hall of Fame players Ted Williams and Wade Boggs.
		Speaker was also part of two World Series championships with Boston in 1912 and 1915 and batted.298 with a double, three triples, and two RBI in post-season play.
	www.fenwayfanatics.com /redsox/history/legend/1013 (465 words)

	Tris Speaker
		Speaker spent 9 seasons with the Red Sox, and also played for 11 seasons with the Cleveland Indians.
		Tris Speaker revolutionized outfield play by positioning himself in shallow center field, which resulted in his recording more assists (450) than any other outfielder.
		Playing at the same time as Ruth, he was overshadowed for much his career; nevertheless, from 1910 to 1915 he was the leader of Boston's legendary outfield, which included Duffy Lewis and Harry Hooper, and made 161 of their record 455 assists.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Speaker.htm (292 words)

	Tris Speaker
		Speaker was part of one of the greatest outfields ever with Duffy Lewis and Harry Hooper, and helped the Red Sox win a couple of World Series title.
		Well, Speaker had seasons like that for more than a dozen or so straight years.
		If you want to call this "Tris Speaker - His Life And Times," it would be a pretty good fit.
	www.homestead.com /sportsbooks/122205.html (575 words)

	Tris Speaker : MLB Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though it’s hard to judge how Tris Speaker would match up against great contemporary center fielders like Andruw Jones, Speaker is still considered one of the greatest in the game’s history.
		Speaker owns baseball records for assists (448) and double players (139) by an outfielder, and he also holds the American League record for career outfield putouts (6,706).
		Tris Speaker died on December 8, 1958 in Lake Whitney, TX.
	www.mlb-legends.com /legends/trisSpeaker.php (257 words)

	Tris Speaker \| National Baseball Hall of Fame
		Speaker's specialty was hitting doubles - he led the league eight times and still holds the career mark with 793.
		View the Hall of Fame ballot from the year Tris Speaker was inducted.
		Tell someone about Tris Speaker by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/speaker_tris.htm (240 words)

	Sons of Sam Horn -> Tim Gay on Tris Speaker - interview
		Speaker is buried in his hometown of Hubbard, Texas, which is not too far from Dallas.
		That fight between Speaker and Carrigan sounds epic as well as the accounts of the intense religious and nationalistic undercurrents in the clubhouse.
		Lewis and Speaker despised each other, and the rift between the Irish and the Protestants on the Red Sox was epic.
	sonsofsamhorn.net /index.php?showtopic=4158 (909 words)

	Tris Speaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tristram E. Speaker (April 4, 1888 in Hubbard, Texas - December 8, 1958 in Lake Whitney, Texas), nicknamed “Spoke” (a play on his last name) and “Grey Eagle” (for his prematurely graying hair), was an American baseball player known as one of the best offensive and defensive center fielders in history.
		Bill Carrigan, a longtime teammate of Speaker's on the Red Sox, oftentimes would send a pickoff throw from his catcher's position to Speaker who had snuck in on second base.
		Struck out only 220 times in 10,195 at-bats (although his page at Tris Speaker statistics shows that records of strikeouts were not kept for the first six years of his career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tris_Speaker (3068 words)

	Tris Speaker General Thread - Baseball Fever
		In Fenway, Peter Golenbock opined that one of the reasons Speaker was traded from the Red Sox was that there was a schism on the between Catholic and Protestant players.
		Speaker later recalled, “That game convinced everybody, including me, that I was an outfielder.“ – Thus began the career of the greatest all around outfielder of the Dead Ball – and possibly any other - era.
		Whether Speaker was a racist or not this may have been the reason that Speaker was so helpful to Doby.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=38504 (5032 words)

	Tris Speaker - Moviefone
		Tris Speaker batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards...
		Tris Speaker, includes biography, career highlights, photos and quotes.
		Tris Speaker - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Tris Speaker Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/tris-speaker/67118/main (98 words)

	Tris Speaker Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Tris Speaker was born on Wednesday, April 4, 1888, in Hubbard, Texas.
		Speaker was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 14, 1907, with the Boston Americans.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Tris Speaker baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=speaktr01 (276 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tris Speaker (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Tris Speaker (Tristram Speaker), 1888–1958, American baseball player, b.
		He then became an outfielder with the Houston club and in 1907 was purchased by the Boston Red Sox of the American League.
		Traded to the Cleveland Indians of the American League in 1916, Speaker was (1919–26) player-manager of the club, leading the Indians to their first pennant and world championship in 1920.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Speaker.html (238 words)

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