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 and Booksigning
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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September 26, 2007
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