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title:Honus : The Life and Times of a Baseball Hero
author:Hageman, William.
publisher:Sports Publishing, Inc.
isbn10 | asin:1571670424
print isbn13:9781571670427
ebook isbn13:9780585046532
language:English
subjectWagner, Honus,--1874-1955, Baseball players--United States--Biography, Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)--History.
publication date:1996
lcc:GV865.W33H34 1996eb
ddc:796.357/092
subject:Wagner, Honus,--1874-1955, Baseball players--United States--Biography, Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)--History.
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Honus
The Life and Times of a Baseball Hero
William Hageman
SAGAMORE PUBLISHING
Champaign, IL
Page ii
1996 William Hageman
All rights reserved.
Book design: Susan M. McKinney
Dustjacket and photo insert design: Michelle R. Dressen
Editors: Susan M. McKinney, Russ Lake
Proofreader: Phyllis L. Bannon
ISBN: 1-57167-042-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-68630
Printed in the United States.
Page iii
To my father, who taught me that baseball
was a game to be enjoyed.
Page v
Contents
Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
9
Chapter Three
15
Chapter Four
23
Chapter Five
37
Chapter Six
51
Chapter Seven
59
Chapter Eight
67
Chapter Nine
77
Chapter Ten
83
Chapter Eleven
93
Chapter Twelve
107
Chapter Thirteen
121
Chapter Fourteen
131
Chapter Fifteen
141
Chapter Sixteen
149
Chapter Seventeen
155
Chapter Eighteen
161
Chapter Nineteen
167
Chapter Twenty
173
Chapter Twenty-one
179
Epilogue
183
Honus Wagner's Career Statistics
185
Appendices
187
Footnotes
199

Page vii
Foreword
Honus Wagner may be the most underappreciated player in the history of baseball.
Unlike contemporaries such as Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, the man who came to be known as the Flying Dutchman did not promote himself. A reticent man who kept to himself on and off the field, Wagner simply played the game without the fanfare that Cobb and Wagner generated throughout their careers. He let his accomplishments speak for him: eight National League batting titles, a 17-year stretch in which he hit better than .300 every season, a .329 career batting average. All of that and more earned him charter membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 as well as consensus acclaim as the greatest shortstop to ever play the game.
To have known him, though, as I did for six of my seasons as a player with the Pirates while he was a coach, was not to know him or any of what he accomplished at all. A loner, he rarely socialized with any of the players, his fellow coaches, or the manager, preferring his own company after hours when he would sometimes walk into a tavern, plunk a silver dollar down on the bar, drink a beer, then move on to another tavern, where he'd do the same thing.
At times on the overnight train trips that we took between cities in those days, he might adjourn to a washroom or vestibule with several players or coaches and tell storieshe was a terrific storyteller. Never, though, would he do so in a more public place, because that would call attention to himself and that was not him.
Few, though, saw the humorous side of Wagner. Those who saw him playwhich I didn'tremembered a ham-handed, bowlegged man far unlike the mold from which shortstops come these days. Unlike Cobb, though, he never slid into a base with his spikes high, nor did he taunt an opponent. Calling his shot, as legend has
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