* Not quite a review: Sid Dorfman on Tris Speaker

June 5, 2008

Tris who?

Sid Dorfman laments the anonymity that has befallen Hall of Fame outfielder Tris Speaker, who was the centerfielder before Mantle and Mays came along.

Dorfman is a local legend here in Jersey. He’s been writing for the Newark Star-Ledger for more than 70 years, our version of The Washington Post’s Shirley Povich. There’s an excellent piece by Tony Kornheiser, written as a eulogy for Povich (who died in 1998), in which the old-timer recalled speaking with Walter Johnson about who was the better pitcher: Lefty Grove or Bob Feller, knocking the literary socks off his young Post college.

As such, Dorfman occasionally reminisces about his old-time favorites. Hence this piece the lack of respect received by Hall of Fame outfielder Tris Speaker and the bookabout him by Charles Alexander.

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