Tris Speaker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 193 lb

BornApril 4, 1888 · Hubbard, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1907

Final gameAugust 30, 1928

Seasons22 (1907–1928)

Boston Americans 1907; Boston Red Sox 1908–1915; Cleveland Indians 1916–1926; Washington Senators 1927; Philadelphia Athletics 1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

141

597

75.7

523

65.1

171

81.7

96.4

43.2

25.4

RBI

72.2

81.7

48.5

52.1

6.5

.327

75.7

OBP

.395

75.1

SLG

.444

65.1

OPS

.839

66.9

wRC+

119.7

69.2

OPS+

118.9

65.1

wOBA

.391

69.2

sWAR

3.5

80.5

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

159.7

99.3

OPS+

159.4

98.9

sWAR

133.4

100

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	7	20	19	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.158	.200	.158	.358	13.1	14.2	.183	-0.2
1908	31	125	116	12	26	2	2	0	9	4	8	3	0	.224	.262	.276	.538	69.8	72.8	.264	0.0
1909	143	606	544	73	168	26	13	7	77	38	53	35	0	.309	.362	.443	.805	150.4	151.5	.387	6.1
1910	141	608	538	92	183	20	14	7	65	52	38	35	0	.340	.404	.468	.873	170.7	171.4	.421	7.5
1911	141	589	500	88	167	34	13	8	70	59	34	25	0	.334	.418	.502	.920	152.9	156.3	.435	6.1
1912	153	675	580	136	222	53	12	10	90	82	36	52	28	.383	.464	.567	1.031	186.1	192.7	.486	10.0
1913	141	608	520	94	189	35	22	3	71	65	22	46	0	.363	.441	.533	.974	183.2	183.6	.463	8.6
1914	158	668	571	101	193	46	18	4	90	77	25	42	29	.338	.423	.503	.926	181.4	180.1	.444	9.0
1915	150	652	547	108	176	25	12	0	69	81	14	29	25	.322	.416	.411	.827	154.5	153.8	.409	6.8
1916	151	647	546	102	211	41	8	2	79	82	20	35	27	.386	.470	.502	.972	193.6	185.4	.471	9.7
1917	142	612	523	90	184	42	11	2	60	67	14	30	0	.352	.432	.486	.918	181.7	179.1	.444	8.4
1918	127	549	471	73	150	33	11	0	61	64	9	27	0	.318	.403	.435	.839	150.0	144.7	.412	5.4
1919	134	595	494	83	146	38	12	2	63	73	12	15	0	.296	.395	.433	.828	132.4	128.1	.396	4.6
1920	150	674	552	137	214	50	11	8	107	97	13	10	13	.388	.483	.562	1.045	177.1	175.0	.483	9.0
1921	132	588	506	107	183	52	14	3	75	68	12	2	4	.362	.439	.538	.977	148.1	147.3	.446	5.7
1922	131	516	426	85	161	48	8	11	71	77	11	8	3	.378	.474	.606	1.080	180.2	178.8	.488	7.1
1923	150	693	574	133	218	59	11	17	130	93	15	8	9	.380	.469	.610	1.079	181.0	181.5	.492	9.4
1924	135	575	486	94	167	36	9	9	65	72	13	5	7	.344	.432	.510	.943	140.8	139.4	.439	5.0
1925	117	518	429	79	167	35	5	12	87	70	12	5	2	.389	.479	.578	1.057	167.2	166.9	.484	6.2
1926	150	661	539	96	164	52	8	7	86	94	15	6	1	.304	.408	.469	.877	130.2	128.1	.410	4.8
1927	141	597	523	71	171	43	6	2	73	55	8	9	8	.327	.395	.444	.839	119.7	118.9	.391	3.5
1928	64	212	191	28	51	22	2	3	30	10	5	5	1	.267	.310	.450	.761	93.0	97.6	.343	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2.000	0.00	2.34	86.9	29.9	9.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

2,789

27th-most career G

11,988

22nd-most career PA

10,195

27th-most career AB

1,882

14th-most career R

3,514

5th-most career H

792

Most career 2B of all time

222

6th-most career 3B

117

RBI

1,529

51st-most career RBI

1,381

30th-most career BB

393

432

59th-most career SB

.3447

10th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4279

15th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5003

117th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9282

50th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1923-08-15	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	1	2	10
1912-06-09	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	10
1923-10-04	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	1	2	9
1910-04-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	9
1927-07-23	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER
1914-10-07	MIN @ BOS Gameday	1.0	2	1	1
1907-04-11	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1907-04-13	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1937 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.