Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed " the Gray Eagle ", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball …

1937 Hall of Fame Voting Results. Inducted: Morgan Bulkeley,Ban Johnson,Nap Lajoie,Connie Mack,John McGraw,Tris Speaker,George Wright,Cy Young Find Full Vote Totals and …

Jan 4, 2012 · Speaker further honed his outfield skills by working with Red Sox pitcher Cy Young. “When I was a rookie,” Speaker later recalled, Young “used to hit me flies to sharpen my …

Elected in 1937 by the BBWAA were (L-R): Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, and Cy Young. The 1937 process of selecting inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame was markedly different from the …

The Hall of Fame’s overall membership grew to eight, as Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Cy Young earned election through the second BBWAA vote, garnering the necessary 75 percent of votes …

Jan 15, 2025 · Tris Speaker, the Grey Eagle, was among the second group of baseball immortals elected in January 1937 to the Hall of Fame in time for the first formal induction ceremony. He …

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Speaker later gave much of the credit for his outstanding ability to judge fly balls to Cy Young, a member of Boston’s pitching staff his first few years with the team.

Feb 10, 2009 · Once, while speaking with a sports writer and reflecting on his rookie year, Tris told the story of how Cy Young had spent hours hitting fly balls to him so that he could improve …