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Originally Posted by terjung
No argument that Speaker was a stud.
For the sake of clarity though, he wasn't in the first HOF class and neither was Cy Young, for that matter.
They both made the 2nd class though.
1936 Class: Cobb, W. Johnson, Matty, Ruth, Wagner
1937 Class: Bulkeley, B. Johnson, Lajoie, Mack, McGraw, Speaker, Wright, Young
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Oops, my bad... From memory I'd thought Wajo, Wagner, Cobb, Ruth, Matty, Speaker, Collins, Cobb, Sisler, Mack, McGraw, Young were in that first class... I think because they all took a group shot together in Cooperstown. Now that I think about it, I think that may have been a centennial HOF shot they took in 1939?
PS- I'm old school in that I always took pride in remembering stuff/stats I'd read in my first total baseball encyclopedia, and still feel disappointed when I have to google. In my world, Ty Cobb still batted .367, Billy Hamilton stole 937 bases, and Hack Wilson drove in 190 runs in 1930
