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    [edit] Honus Wagner Overhaul

    This sandbox is currently being used to overhal the article concerning Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner. You are welcome to help, all suggestions, questions, and comments are welcome.

    [edit] Information to be inculded

    If you have any interesting facts, figures, or stories about "The Flying Dutchman" that you would like to see included in the article please leave them below. All I ask is that you find a reliable source to back it up. If you have a piece of info that you do not have a source for please leave it in the "Unsourced" section, and hopefully someone will be able to find one.

    [edit] Tales from the Pirates dugout

    The following info comes from: McCollister, John (2003). Tales from the Pirates Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Pirates Stories Ever Told. Sports Publishing L.L.C., 171-7. ISBN 1-58261-630-2. 

    • Born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania
    • Life-time batting average of .327
    • He had a "muscular" build at 5 feet 11 inches, 200 pounds
    • Member of the first Hall of Fame class, but not officially inducted into Cooperstown until June 12, 1939 (Cooperstown was not built yet)
    • Nickname: "The Flying Dutchman"
    • He had "pronounced bowed legs"
    • His number "33" is retired, though he never wore it as a player. He wore it as a coach. Numbers were not worn until the 1929 New York Yankees.
    • Played 21 years, coached for 19
    • As a coach he would occasionally take infield practice, all the players (on both teams) would stop and watch him
    • Never played in an all-star game (They had not yet begun)
    • Coached the NL all star team at age 70, possibly the oldest all-star debut (1944, Forbes Field)
    • John McGraw once told a young pitcher on his team to "Throw anything-then duck." When facing Wagner
    • First player to be paid for endorsing a product (His name was put on a bat)
    • He frequently smoked and chewed.
    • His famous T206 Honus Wagner baseball card has been called the "Mona Lisa of Baseball Cards" and "Holy Grail of Baseball Memerobilia"
    • Outperformed Ty Cobb in the 1909 WS in avg., RBI, Stolen bases.
    • He was a poor speaker in front of large crowds, but good in front of small ones.

    [edit] A Biography

    The following info was taken from: DeValeria, Dennis; Jeanne Burke DeValeria (1995). Honus Wagner: A Biography. United States: Unniversity of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5665-9. 

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    [edit] Young life

    Johannes Peter Wagner was born to Peter and Katheryn Wagner, on February 24, 1874. The couple, who emigrated in 1866 from Prussia to Chartiers, lived in a poor, working class neighborhood; located only four miles from the City of Pittsburgh. John, a coal miner, and Katheryn, a housekeeper, had a total of nine children, however, only six survived infancy. The fourth child to survive, Johannes, was usually called "Hans" or "Honus" by his parents. Though, as would all of his siblings, he would be known for much of his childhood by the english nickname "John". Despite parents who spoke primarily German, all of the Wagner children would learn to speak German, as well as English, with a Pittsburgh, not German, accent.

    Born with legs so bowed "he couldn't catch a pig in an alley,"[1]