Horace Speed (baseball)

Horace Arthur Speed III (born October 4, 1951) is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder who played three seasons for the San Francisco Giants and the Cleveland Indians.

[1] He made his major league debut with San Francisco as a pinch runner for catcher Dave Rader in 1975, as the Giants defeated the San Diego Padres, 2–0.

[2] He then signed as a free agent with the Indians on December 7, 1977, and had his most productive major league season with the team in 1978, appearing in 70 games.

[1] Speed made his final major league appearance in 1979, as a pinch runner for Cliff Johnson, in a Cleveland 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

[3] This biographical article relating to an American baseball outfielder born in the 1950s is a stub.