Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagnerwas an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the most in National League history with Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times, and in stolen bases five times. Wagner was nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth24 February 1874
CityChartiers, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
He was one of the greatest pitchers of all time. He (was) the smartest pitcher I've ever seen.
Even a bad one that's torn is worth $65,000.
Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.