The National Baseball Hall of Fame describes Tris Speaker with, "despite spending most of his career in Ty Cobb's considerable shadow, (his) .345 lifetime average and revolutionary defensive play made him on of Cobb's few rivals". How does Hank Aaron compare to Tris Speaker?
... had a relatively simple formula for success which he summed up with this quote, "Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution"?