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Show Tris Speaker Consistent Hitter I r . w j iiiiiiipiiKai This Speaker, veteran manager and center fielder of the Cleveland Indians, has fallen below the .300 mark in batting just once. That was in 1919, the year he succeeded Lee Fohl as pilot. Speaker hit .296 that season. Though he has been in the big show continuously since the latter part of 1908, Speaker has topped the league's batters on only one occasion. He turned the trick in 1916, beating Cobb out after a hectic struggle. Speaker's triumph, by the way, brought a temporary halt to Cobb's sensational string of clouting championships that had run to nine. |