Honus Wagner (Person) AKA The Flying Dutchman
Honus Wagner
1874 AD - 1955 AD
AKA The Flying Dutchman
American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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". Honus Wagner is also the featured player of one of the rarest and the most valuable baseball cards in existence.
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.
MLB Stats
- .329 Batting average
- 3,430 Hits
- 101 Home runs
- 1,732 Runs batted in
- 722 Stolen bases
- Spouse
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Bessie Baine Smith09/02/1916 AD
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