Tris Speaker is one of baseball's immortals. He was perhaps the greatest defensive outfielder in baseball history, and with a lifetime batting average of 345, certainly one of its greatest hitters. Speaker played 22 years of major league ball, from 1907 through 1928. starting with the Boston Red Sox up to 1915, with Cleveland from 1916 through 1926 and with Washington and Philadelphia the next two years. He managed the Indians from 1919 until the end of 1926, and piloted Newark in the International League in 1929 and '30. Speaker still holds the doubles record in the American League with 793. Only four times in his entire career did he fail to hit .300 or better.