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Renowned Baseball Historian Charles C. Alexander on
His New Biography of a Texas Baseball Great

 

Spoke:

A Biography of Tris Speaker
Published by SMU Press, 2007


DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

Thursday, November 1, 2007
6:00 pm reception
6:30 pm lecture  
Book signing following lecture

Tris Speaker was a charter member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Cy Young, and others.  Many believe he was the greatest centerfielder ever to play that position.  He was a fiery competitor and immensely popular in his day, yet he is no longer well known by sports fans.  Alexander’s biography chronicles Speaker’s twenty-two-year career and makes the case that Speaker deserves to be known to a wider audience.

 "Spoke is a first-rate biography of one of the most important and intriguing, but today largely overlooked, figures in baseball history."—Paul Rogers, Sport in American Life series editor

CHARLES C. ALEXANDER, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University, is the author of several important works of American intellectual and cultural history in addition to his other acclaimed baseball books—Ty Cobb, John McGraw, Our Game: An American Baseball History, Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era.
 

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