Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Ohio University, has written 14 books, the last eight of which have dealt with American baseball history. He lives in Hamilton, Ohio.

“Spoke is a first-rate biography of one of the most important and intriguing, but today largely overlooked, figures in baseball history.”—C. Paul Rogers III, co-author of The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant.

• Table of ContentsForeword: “No Place for Me” xv1. “I Played Baseball and Drove the Cows to Pasture” 12. “By No Means a Finished Outfielder” 173. “Well, There Goes Your World Series” 394. “For God’s Sake, Men, Take the Money Away” 595. “Baseball Is a Business” 836. “New Life into a Half-Dead, Despondent City” 1057. “The Inspiration of Speaker’s Leadership” 1358. “I Knew My Team” 1539. “I Will Never be a Bench Manager” 17710. “We’ll Finish in the League Anyway” 20511. “A Veritable Judas” 23312. “A Sort of Twilight to His Career” 25313. “My Name Is Tris Speaker” 277Afterword: “Let Your Voices Soften to a Mere Whisper” 305Notes 311Bibliography 327Index 337

Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Ohio University, has written 14 books, the last eight of which have dealt with American baseball history. He lives in Hamilton, Ohio.

“Spoke is a first-rate biography of one of the most important and intriguing, but today largely overlooked, figures in baseball history.”—C. Paul Rogers III, co-author of The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant.

• Table of ContentsForeword: “No Place for Me” xv1. “I Played Baseball and Drove the Cows to Pasture” 12. “By No Means a Finished Outfielder” 173. “Well, There Goes Your World Series” 394. “For God’s Sake, Men, Take the Money Away” 595. “Baseball Is a Business” 836. “New Life into a Half-Dead, Despondent City” 1057. “The Inspiration of Speaker’s Leadership” 1358. “I Knew My Team” 1539. “I Will Never be a Bench Manager” 17710. “We’ll Finish in the League Anyway” 20511. “A Veritable Judas” 23312. “A Sort of Twilight to His Career” 25313. “My Name Is Tris Speaker” 277Afterword: “Let Your Voices Soften to a Mere Whisper” 305Notes 311Bibliography 327Index 337