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Speaker earned American League MVP honors that year by finishing first in the voting for the Chalmers Award, leading the AL in on-base percentage with a mark of .464 and carrying Boston to a World Series championship. Speaker had three different hitting streaks of at least 20 games that season.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. He was named 27th [ 4 ] in the Sporting News 100 Greatest Baseball Players (1999) and was also included in the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
View Tris Speaker's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos). Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1908 season Full Name: Tristram Edgar Speaker
Tris Speaker was an American professional baseball player and manager who spent his 22-year career (1907–28) primarily with the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. Speaker and Ty Cobb are generally considered the two greatest players of this period. Speaker was perhaps the best centre fielder.
4 sty 2012 · Tris Speaker was buried in a cedar-shaded spot in Section 1, Block 2 of Fairview Cemetery in Hubbard, where his mother and father were interred and not far from the diamond where he once played as a boy. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937, one of the first eight players so honored.
9 mar 2020 · Speaker’s Hall of Fame plaque barely mentions his offense — almost in passing, it includes his .344 career batting average (now known to be .345) and states that he managed Cleveland to...
1 kwi 2023 · Speaker is the uncle of Tex Jeanes. He managed for parts of three seasons in the minor leagues: as a player-manager with the Newark Bears in 1929-30 and with the Kansas City Blues in 1933. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on January 19, 1937 by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
