The day is October 27th, 1919. We are at the Hotel Winton. Raymond Johnson Chapman is our guest of honor. In just two days, Chapman and Kathleen Daly would tie the knot and become husband and wife. We are at his bachelor’s dinner amongst Chapman and his closest friends. Tris Speaker is among those friends, and Speaker knew he would be Chapman’s Best Man at the wedding. What Speaker did not know is how the 1920 season would play out. Speaker will head into the 1920 season as a player-manager, an art that has been lost in modern baseball. The art of being a player-manager is so fine. You get to experience the game from both sides of the spectrum at the same time. Tris Speaker, who was often regarded up with the greatest baseball player to ever
