"Speaker is the greatest of the present day CF...there never has been but one man was his superior: Lange."
"He has the rough complexion of someone who has spent most of his life in the open air. He has heavy, buddy, bloodshot eyes, not the kind one would imagine could pick out a good ball and paste it to the far corner of the field, or could start after the ball at the crack and judge to an inch where that ball might land. He has a voice like rumbling thunder and his softest words sound like the growl of a mastiff. He has large, powerful hands, freckled."
"Most of the Boston players live together in an apartment house on Huntington Avenue. Many of them like to loll around their rooms..not so with Speaker who gets out and roams around as if he has nothing else to do." "Recently he bought an automobile. He has learned the mechanism of the machine and now spends his mornings speeding on the suburban roads. And doubtless this same automobile has affected his batting eye. Hans Wagner who owns and operates an automobile had to stop riding it because his batting fell off to nothing. Speaker could easily bat .400 if he would leave the automobile alone."
Alfred Spink, The National Game, 1911.
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