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Originally Posted by Yoda
Certainly Tris Speaker until he got involved with Cobb betting on games that was pretty much swept under the rug.
He went out of his way to help his old teammate and roommate Joe Wood when Joe blew his arm out, bringing him to Cleveland where Joe played a very decent center field.
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Speaker went out of his way to train Larry Doby to become a centerfielder. But his association with the KKK and his dislike of his Catholic teammates is a black eye.