Article: LIFETIME TEAM BATTING RECORDS AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Article: In Tris Speaker's day, 3,000 was just a ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... chasing 3,000 hits. So it was for Tris Speaker, the last Cleveland Indian before Murray ... tottering-leg become springy, and Tris Speaker, gray-thatched leader of the Indians ... of his day.'' On May 17, 1925, Tris Speaker made history. He was 37 and gray ...

Tris Speaker
Archive Photos;  September 1, 1994 ;     232 words ... ... outdoor A major league outfielder from 1907 to 1928, Tris Speaker played for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians ... baseball hats. sports & physical fitness. people Tris Speaker Copyright (c) Archive Photos.

Article: Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a ...
Nine;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Timothy M. Gay. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend. Lincoln ... I was a boy in the 1950s, the older baseball books I read had Tris Speaker as the centerfielder on the all-time team. But his star was ...

Article: Timothy M. Gay. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble ...
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Timothy M. Gay. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend. University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 318 pp. $27.95. Tris Speaker is a most attractive figure for a biographer--a consistent winner, a defining athlete ...

Article: Record RBI streak discovered: Hall of Famer Tris ...
Baseball Digest;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... than 13 games, and it was set by a Hall of Famer with more than 22 seasons and 1,500 RBI to his record. The player was Tris Speaker, who batted in a run in 14 consecutive contests in 1928 while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics. What makes Speaker ...

Article: The Cobb-Speaker scandal: exonerated but probably guilty.(Ty ...
Nine;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Hall of Fame continues to be a topic of major interest to fans. (2) Another scandal--the 1926-27 Ty Cobb--Tris Speaker one--warrants examining in relation to the Black Sox and Rose cases. However, the denouement in the Cobb-Speaker instance ...

Article: Those Stats May Not Be for the Ages After All; Tris ...
The Washington Post;  May 11, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... colleagues. The ninth edition of the game's quintessential research work has overhauled a number of them. Apparently, Tris Speaker's record was replete with mistakes. When the encyclopedia's police force was done with him, he had 11 fewer at- bats ...