trisspeaker

one of the great's

Assuming this is actually *in* Boston, this would likely be the Huntington Avenue Grounds. Not too many photos of that ballpark floating around the web, alas. I can't quite match this photo with the others that exist: www.geocities.com/colosseum/arena/5866/hunting.jpg

Looks more like New York's Hilltop Park, as in this photo:

Baseball Reference stats: www.baseball-reference.com/s/speaktr01.shtml This photo was taken in his only MVP season.

Speaker was at one time considered one of the three greatest AL outfielders along with Cobb and Ruth. Kind of an odd pose....talk about pulling the ball. LOL

That is cool thanks for sharing.

An interesting feature of men's wear from that era: a belt loop in-line with front zippers/button flys.

These pictures are priceless!!!!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lost Ballparks, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Cleveland's Player-Manager Tris Speaker and Brooklyn's Manager Wilbert Robinson meet at World series time, 1920: "In the 1920 World Series, the Cleveland Indians beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, then known interchangeably as the Robins in reference to their manager Wilbert Robinson, in seven games, five games to two. This series was a best-of-nine series, like the first World Series in 1903 and the World Series of 1919 and 1921. The only World Series triple play, the first World Series grand slam and the first World Series home run by a pitcher all occurred in Game 5 of this Series. The Indians won the series in memory of their former shortstop Ray Chapman, who had been killed earlier in the season when struck in the head by a pitched ball." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_World_Series