Specs may refer to: * Colloquial abbreviation for specifications * Colloquial abbreviation for spectacles

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Specs Clark Morten Avery "Specs" Clark (December 19, 1889 – November 17, 1943) was an American baseball shortstop in the pre-Negro leagues. He was born December 19, 1889, in Bristol, Tennessee, and played professional baseball for the Birmingham Giants ...

(1889-1943), American pre-Negro league baseball player * Specs Ellis, American former Negro league pitcher *

Specs Powell Gordon "Specs" Powell (June 5, 1922 – September 15, 2007) was a jazz drummer who began performing in the swing era. Career Specs was the first black staff musician hired by CBS in 1943. Born in New York City, he started on piano but ...

(1922-2007), American jazz drummer and percussionist *

Specs Howard Specs Howard (born Julian Liebman; April 8, 1926 – September 3, 2022) was an American radio personality who spent three decades entertaining audiences in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. He achieved notice as one of the members of the '' ...

or Jerry Liebman (born 1926), American radio pioneer *

Specs Roberts Charles W. Roberts (September 7, 1907 – September 10, 1984), nicknamed "Specs", was an American Negro league pitcher who played in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Roberts made his Negro leagues debut in 1936 with ...

(1908-?), American former Negro league pitcher *

Specs Toporcer George Toporcer (born ''Toporczer''; February 9, 1899 – May 17, 1989) was a professional baseball player and executive. He served primarily as a utility infielder during his eight seasons in Major League Baseball, playing for the St. Louis Cardi ...

(1899-1989), American Major League Baseball player and executive *

Specs Wright Charles "Specs" Wright (September 8, 1927 - February 6, 1963) was an American jazz drummer born in Philadelphia. Wright played drums in an Army band until his discharge in 1947. Following this he played in a group with Jimmy Heath and Howard McGh ...

(1927-1963), American jazz drummer

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The Specs The Specs was a new wave cover band from Lincoln, Nebraska, featuring a teenage Matthew Sweet, that played together from 1978–1980. History Sweet grew up in Lincoln in a musical family, and as a child he learned to play multiple instruments; ...

, a 1980s American band *

Spec's Music Spec's Music was a South Florida-based retail music and video rental chain headquartered in Miami. At its height of popularity, Spec's Music operated 80 stores, including "superstores" in Miami Beach, West Palm Beach, and Sunrise. The company's ...

, a defunct South Florida-based retail music and video rental chain *

SPECS Sport SPECS is a sports company from Indonesia. The company was founded in 1994 in Jakarta. The company produces a wide range of sports equipment. The company is known for sponsoring Indonesian association football players and is a shirt club sponsor ...

, a sports company from Indonesia * Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods, a Texas-based liquor store chain * Specs, speculative technology described in the novel ''

Halting State ''Halting State'' is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on 2 October 2007 and in the United Kingdom in January 2008. Stross has said that it is "a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games". The pl ...

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