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 born in Hubbard, Texas.

Speaker played for the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics. 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, 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. Speaker's specialty was hitting doubles—he led the league eight times and still holds the career mark with 793. His shallow play in center field enabled him to record 450 assists, placing him comfortably atop the all-time list. One of baseball's most successful player-managers, he guided Cleveland to a World Series victory in 1920.

Speaker is the only major league player to have three batting streaks of 20 or more games in a single season (1912). He played outfield for the Red Sox and the Indians, 1907-26, managing the Indians, 1919-26. His lifetime average was .344 with 3,515 hits in 22 years. He appeared in the films The Ninth Inning (1942) and The Kid From Cleveland (1949).

Tris Speaker died in Lake Whitney, Texas and he is buried in Section 1, Block 2 of the Fairview Cemetery, Hubbard, Hill County, Texas.

Table of contents

1 Regular season stats
2 See also
3 External links

Regular season stats

G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	TB	SH	HBP
2789	10195	1882	3514	792	222	117	1529	432	129	1381	220	.345	.428	.500	5101	309	103

External links

Tris Speaker's career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
Tris Speaker's Baseball Hall of Fame biography