39 Facts About Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner won his eighth batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this day, and matched only once, in 1997, by Tony Gwynn.

Honus Wagner led the league in slugging six times and stolen bases five times.

Honus Wagner was nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage.

Honus Wagner received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb's 222 and tied with Babe Ruth at 215.

Honus Wagner is the featured player of one of the rarest and the most valuable baseball cards in existence.

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Honus Wagner was born to German immigrants Peter and Katheryn Honus Wagner in the borough of Chartiers, in what is Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Honus Wagner dropped out of school at age 12 to help his father and brothers in the coal mines.

Honus Wagner played for five teams in that first year, in three different leagues over the course of 80 games.

Honus Wagner was just head and shoulders above anyone else in that position.

Honus Wagner was perhaps the greatest right-handed hitter of all time.

Honus Wagner had remarkably long arms, hams for hands, and just drew the ball to him.

Honus Wagner led the National League seven times at bat and he was always up with the leaders when he was in his forties.

In 1898, Honus Wagner won a distance contest in Louisville by throwing a baseball more than 403 feet .

Honus Wagner retired with the National League record for most steals of home, which was broken by Greasy Neale in 1922.

Honus Wagner returned to the Pirates early in the 1908 season, and finished two home runs short of the league's Triple Crown, leading the league in hitting ‚ hits‚ total bases‚ doubles‚ triples‚ RBI‚ and stolen bases.

Honus Wagner was 5-for-5 in the game; after each hit, he reportedly held up another finger to Donlin, who went hitless, and who had just beaten runner-up Honus Wagner by a wide margin in a "most popular player" poll.

Honus Wagner, by this point, was an established star and much was expected of him, especially since the Pirates' starting rotation was decimated by injury.

Honus Wagner turned to O'Loughlin, an American League umpire, by the way, and said, 'Of course I was out.

Honus Wagner won the 1911 batting title by the narrowest of margins.

In 1916, Honus Wagner became the oldest player to hit an inside-the-park home run.

Honus Wagner has been considered one of the very best all-around players to ever play baseball since the day he retired in 1917.

Many of the greats who played or managed against Honus Wagner, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and Walter Johnson, list him at shortstop on their All-Time teams.

Honus Wagner was not finished playing baseball after his retirement from major league baseball.

Honus Wagner coached baseball and basketball at Carnegie Institute of Technology, which is part of Carnegie Mellon University.

In 1928, Honus Wagner ran for the office of Sheriff of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but lost.

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Honus Wagner was appointed as a deputy of the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office in 1942.

Honus Wagner was invited to be an honorary coach for the National League squad, the first time this honor was bestowed in Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.

Honus Wagner lived the remainder of his life in Pittsburgh, where he was well known as a friendly figure around town.

Honus Wagner starred as a sports hero in 1919's Spring Fever with Moe Howard and Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, and has been depicted as the subject of The Winning Season and in a brief scene in Cobb .

Christy Mathewson asserted that Honus Wagner was the only player he faced that did not have a weakness.

Bill James says that Honus Wagner is easily the greatest shortstop of all time, noting that the difference between Honus Wagner and the second greatest shortstop, in James' estimation Arky Vaughan, is roughly the same as the gulf between Vaughan and the 20th greatest shortstop.

Honus Wagner is mentioned in the poem Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash.

Life-size statue of Honus Wagner swinging a bat, atop a marble pedestal featuring admiring children, was forged by a local sculptor named Frank Vittor, and placed outside the left-field corner gate at Forbes Field.

Honus Wagner is honored in the form of a small stadium residing behind Carnegie Elementary School on Washington Avenue in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Honus Wagner's assistant has to point out that they are not only retired but long-dead.

The front of all T206 series cards, including the Honus Wagner card, displayed a lithograph of the player created by a multi-stage printing process in which a number of colors were printed on top of each other to create a lithograph with the appropriate design.

Honus Wagner had been at the top of his game throughout the decade and was even considered the game's greatest player at the time.

Honus Wagner had appeared on advertisements for a number of other products such as chewing gum, gunpowder, and soft drinks.

Honus Wagner threatened to seek legal action against ATC if they went ahead and created his baseball card.