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Tris Speaker - The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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Tris Speaker - The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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Loot Price R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
You Save R97 (15%)
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A three-time World Series winner and an early inductee into the
Hall of Fame, lauded by Babe Ruth as the finest defensive
outfielder he ever saw, and described as "perfection on the field"
by the great Grantland Rice, Tris Speaker enjoys the peculiar
distinction of being one of the least-known legends of baseball
history. 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. Playing for the
Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the
twentieth century, Tris "Spoke" Speaker put up numbers that amaze
us even today: his record for career doubles-792-may never be
approached, let alone broken. Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing
account of some of the best baseball ever played-and of some of the
darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a
career. Gay's four years of research on Speaker unearthed a
document that suggests that cheating induced by gambling was far
more widespread in early baseball than officials have acknowledged.
Gay's book captures the bygone spirit of the big leagues'
rough-and-tumble early years and restores one of baseball's true
greats-and a truly larger-than-life personality-to his rightful
place in the American sports pantheon.
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