Butts Wagner

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Butts Wagner
Third Baseman
Born: September 17, 1871
Died: November 26, 1928 (aged 57)
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 27, 1898
for the Washington Senators
Final game
October 10, 1898
for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms
Career statistics
Batting average     .226
Home Runs     1
Runs batted in     34
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Albert "Butts" Wagner (September 17, 1871 - November 26, 1928) played one year of Major League Baseball.[1]

[edit] Career

Born in Chartiers, Pennsylvania, he began the 1898 season with the Washington Senators and later on was loaned to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms.[1] On July 4, Wanger replaced an injured Duke Farrell in center field and hit a home run, the only home run of his career, along with a double and scored three runs in a 9-5 Bridegroom victory.[2] He is Honus Wagner's older brother.[1]

Wagner died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 57, and was interred at the Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.[3]

[edit] Popular culture

Butts Wagner is depicted as a eccentric inventor during a boy's long dream sequence in the book The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker. Wagner invents an automatic bat machine, and the boy helps defend him from organized crime figures who want to steal the machine.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Butts Wagner's career statistics. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
  2. ^ 1898 Chronolgy. baseballlibrary.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
  3. ^ Career statistics. retrosheet.org. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
  4. ^ The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker. amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.


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