The Gray Eagle
Tristam E. "Tris" Speaker. "The Gray Eagle". Center fielder with the Washington Senators in 1926. 3,514 hits and 117 home runs in 22 MLB seasons. Career OBP of .428. 3-time World Series champion -- 1912 and 1915 (Boston) and 1920 (Cleveland). 1912 AL MVP. 1916 AL batting champion. 1912 AL home run leader. 1923 AL RBI leader. Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame. Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame. 1937 Inductee to the MLB Hall of Fame.
Speaker had already had a Hall of Fame career playing for Boston and Cleveland by the end of the 1926 season. But baseball was still skittish regarding game-fixing in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, and when a disgruntled Dutch Leonard accused Speaker and Cobb of fixing a 1919 game, Ban Johnson quickly convinced both men to resign in order to protect baseball's image. Though Leonard's accusations were eventually abandoned by Leonard and Speaker was cleared by Landis, he didn't return to Cleveland. Instead he signed with Washington, hit .327 in the 1927 season, and left us this card featuring The Gray Eagle in a Washington uniform.
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