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Originally Posted by itjclarke
It's a shame that Tris Speaker relatively gets the shaft as compared to Matty/Cobb/Wags/Young/etc.. he was one of the first HOF class (with Wajo, Matty, Cy young, Cobb, etc) and even though primarily a dead ball player, his stats hold up incredibly.. especially doubles and triples totals. Also, I know it was a different game and centerfielders could play much shallower, but just check out his OF assists as compared with assist numbers today. The guy was a flat out stud.
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No argument that Speaker was a stud.
For the sake of clarity though, he wasn't in the first HOF class and neither was Cy Young, for that matter.
They both made the 2nd class though.
1936 Class: Cobb, W. Johnson, Matty, Ruth, Wagner
1937 Class: Bulkeley, B. Johnson, Lajoie, Mack, McGraw, Speaker, Wright, Young