This article is about the American baseball player. For people with similar names, see Hans Wagner (disambiguation). For the baseball card, see T206 Honus Wagner.
Baseball player
Honus Wagner
Wagner in 1903
Shortstop
Born:(1874-02-24)February 24, 1874 Chartiers Borough, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: December 6, 1955(1955-12-06) (aged 81) Carnegie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
5× NL stolen base leader (1901, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1908)
Pittsburgh Pirates No. 33 retired
Pirates Hall of Fame
Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Major League Baseball All-Time Team
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1936
Vote
95.1% (first ballot)
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (/ˈhɒnəsˈwæɡnər/HON-əs WAG-nər; February 24, 1874[1] – December 6, 1955[2]), was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates.[3] Wagner won his eighth (and final) batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this day, and matched only once, in 1997, by Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times and stolen bases five times. Wagner was nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage. This nickname was a nod to the popular folk-tale made into a famous opera by the German composer Richard Wagner.
In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members. He received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb's 222 and tied with Babe Ruth at 215.
Most baseball historians consider Wagner to be the greatest shortstop ever and one of the greatest players ever. Ty Cobb himself called Wagner "maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond".[4] Honus Wagner is also the featured player of one of the rarest and the most valuable baseball cards in existence.
^Honus Wagner at the SABR Baseball Biography Project , by Jan Finkel, Retrieved April 4, 2016.
^"Honus Wagner". infoplease.com. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
^"Honus Wagner Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
^Cobb, Ty (1993). My Life in Baseball. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 283 pgs. ISBN 0-8032-6359-7.
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (/ˈhɒnəs ˈwæɡnər/ HON-əs WAG-nər; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), was an American baseball shortstop who played 21...
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inaugural World Series in 1903 and winning their first title in 1909 behind HonusWagner. The Pirates took part in arguably the most famous World Series ending...
been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics, as is HonusWagner, who was elected in the BBWAA vote: †Cap Anson – 391/2 †Buck Ewing –...
cards. The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 HonusWagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133...
batting average of .366, led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons. HonusWagner and Gwynn are tied for the second-most titles, with eight apiece in the...
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(752), Arlie Latham (742), Eddie Collins (741), Max Carey (738), and HonusWagner (723), who are the only other players to have stolen at least 700 bases...
less than 60 of the T206 HonusWagner cards still exist. By last count, there were 57 known examples. In 2021, a T206 Wagner card was sold in a private...
has third-most hits all time among shortstops, behind Derek Jeter and HonusWagner. Vizquel is also the career sacrifice hits leader of the live-ball era...
examples" of traditional sports novels. Joe Stoshack discovers the T206 HonusWagner, the most valuable baseball card in the world, while cleaning out an...
Dinneen bettered that mark, striking out 11 Pittsburgh batters in Game 2. HonusWagner, bothered by injuries, batted only 6-for-27 (.222) in the Series and...
valuable baseball card ever printed, the T206 tobacco card featuring HonusWagner, was produced. The T206 set, distributed by the American Tobacco Company...
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in the world features HonusWagner, one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century. The T206 HonusWagner has repeatedly set records...
expensive sale price for a sports card previously held by the 1909–1911 T206 HonusWagner baseball card. However, his record did not last long, as a signed Mickey...
high point for him, finishing with a lowly .231, as the Tigers lost to HonusWagner and the powerful Pirates in seven games. Although he performed poorly...
206" brand, with current players. That first revival included the T206 HonusWagner iconic card, with blue background instead of the original orange. A second...
featuring two of the very best players of the time, Pittsburgh shortstop HonusWagner, and Detroit outfielder Ty Cobb. Sites: games 1, 2 in Pittsburgh; games...
eight times. Babe Ruth and HonusWagner have the second- and third-most RBI titles, respectively: Ruth with six, and Wagner with five. Several players...
that still stands. He played alongside legendary ballplayers such as HonusWagner and Mordecai Brown. Leach began his career primarily as an infielder...
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