Speaker, Tris (Tristram Speaker), 1888-1958, American baseball player, b. Hubbard, Tex. He started (1906) in organized baseball as a left-handed pitcher for the Cleburne team of the North Texas League. He then became an outfielder with the Houston club and in 1907 was purchased by the Boston Red Sox of the American League. Traded to the Cleveland Indians of the American League in 1916, Speaker was (1919-26) player-manager of the club, leading the Indians to their first pennant and world championship in 1920. He played with the Washington Senators (1927) and the Philadelphia Athletics (1928). One of the outstanding batters in American League history (his major-league lifetime batting average was .345), he was also regarded as one of the best defensive outfielders in the league. In 1937 he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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In sound reproduction, device for converting electrical energy into acoustical (sound) signal energy that is radiated into a room or open air (see acoustics). The part of the speaker that converts electrical into mechanical energy is frequently called the motor, or voice coil. The motor vibrates a diaphragm that vibrates the air in immediate contact with it, producing a sound wave corresponding to the pattern of the original speech, music, or other acoustic signal.

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Speaker may refer to:

• Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
• Speaker of the British House of Commons
• Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• "Speaker" (song), single by David Banner on his album The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Speaker for the Dead, a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker Township, Michigan, U.S.
• HMS Speaker (D90), a WWII Royal Navy aircraft carrier

Speaker may also be:

• Orator, or public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
• Loudspeaker, an electromechanical device which produces sound