Aoki played in mlb from 2012 to 2017, where he compiled a. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Rare honus wagner baseball card is on deck for auction. Creighton hale 19242017, the little leagues first director of. Walter perry johnson november 6, 1887 december 10, 1946, nicknamed barney and the big train, was a major league baseball righthanded pitcher. Get the best deals on honus wagner pittsburgh pirates baseball cards when you shop the largest online selection at. I am a new jersey native with a passion for baseball, statistics. As for wagner, even knowing wagner s after baseball life and how he became a sorry sad shell of a man, arod still couldn. Forever cemented in hobby lexicon, the chain of ownership of this cardboard treasure is documented here in an easytounderstand timeline. Im interested in looking at his relative stats or win shares, and just adjusting them up or down for quality of play. Here is more from fred lieb, from his wonderful book, baseball as i have known it, page 45. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award. Honus wagner pittsburgh pirates baseball cards for sale ebay.
Honus wagner baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and. Although known to few beyond the diehard baseball fan, he was a member of the first class of inductees into the major league baseball hall of fame in 1936. Honus wagner was one of the greatest baseball players of the dead ball era before babe ruth. This page lists every known baseball award won by honus wagner in chronological order. The most valuable baseball card in existence, a t206 honus wagner card, is in the same collection. Psa 8 t206 honus wagner historical timeline infographic. Sabermetrics, the study of baseball statistics, considers batting average a.
Honus wagner page at the bullpen wiki are you a stathead. My book hardball retrospective is available in digital format on. Worlds rarest honus wagner baseball card surfaces, and it. The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is ed by retrosheet. Lot photo cards honus wagner dodger baseball sparky anderson detroit tigers.
Johannes peter honus wagner sometimes referred to as hans wagner, was an american baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in major league. Year, nl champion, al champion, top position player, team, war, top pitcher, team, war. Honus wagner files at the carnegie library main branch in pittsburgh. But hornsbys hitting environment during his career was exponentially friendlier than honus conditions, unless we look at his 19161919 dead ball years only. Get the best deals on honus wagner baseball cards when you shop the largest online selection at. In 1887 richter, and other baseball journalists, formed the base ball reporters association of america, also referred to as the national base ball reporters association. This honus wagner baseball card checklist includes every known baseball card that honus wagner has appeared on, in chronological order. The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from. In baseball, the batting average ba is the number of hits divided by at bats.
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The story of eddie plank by lawrence knorr was published in 2018 by sunbury press. Honus wagner baseball vintage sports photos for sale ebay. Bill goodwin displays two valuable baseball cards on tuesday, march, 2012. The pittsburgh pirates shortstop was a sensational hitter, a brilliant baserunner and a flawless fielder. Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. Honus wagner baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats. Two smart efficient baseball men, john mcgraw and ed barrow, were better positioned that kuhn and they didnt forget it. Honus wagner is considered by many to be baseball s greatest allaround player. Honus, if you didnt know became a drunk later as a coach, and would take a game ball into a tavern and attempt to barter it for a drink, he would say it loud enough until someone recognized him and bought. Honus wagner stats by baseball almanac in 1883 francis richter founded the sporting life, a weekly magazine devoted to coverage of all sports, with an emphasis on baseball. Most valued baseball card the honus wagner baseball card, one of the most valuable in existence today, was recalled in 1909. The statistics used were obtained free of charge from the baseball databank. In 1963 eliot asinof described the events in his book eight men out. Honus wagner on his life and baseball deftly edited by william r.
If the tab is greyed out, they did not appear on a baseball card. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. The t206 honus wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist. I see the outfielders moving in during wagner s era and cutting off a bunch of those extra base hits that the rajah had in the. Ginger beaumont 1909 t206 piedmont baseball card baseball almanac collection the ginger beaumont photo below shows connie mack congratulating ginger beaumont at his induction into the wisconsins athletic hall of fame held at. The highly regarded fivetool label is a relatively modern term in baseballs lexicon. Honus wagner society for american baseball research. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball. Did you know that in the honus wagner miscellaneous world series items of interest section seen above you can click the stats link under the world series label and a truly comprehensive history of that world series will appear on your screen. This team featured a 21 year old honus wagner back row, 2nd from right and his older brother albert butts wagner front row, 2nd from right.
The welldocumented story of the card, a near mint t206 honus wagner, is a tale of intrigue, highfinance, corruption and fraud. Every day, well send you an email to your inbox with scores, todays schedule, top performers, new debuts and interesting tidbits. Every major league baseball player who has appeared on a baseball card, has a cards tab on their respective page. According to baseball almanac, the alltime itphr record is held by. Im not interested in time machining honus wagner into the 1970s or any other era. Since honus wagner played over 100 years ago and was a very private person it is difficult for any author to get behind the man because of limited prime source material. The stats show that honus paced nl shortstops in putouts twice. He later served as manager of the senators from 1929 through 1932 and of the cleveland indians from 1933 through 1935. Honus wagner once said beaumont was a better hitter than ty cobb or babe ruth. An eddie plank card is at left, and a honus wagner card is at right.
Get the best deals on honus wagner baseball vintage sports photos when you shop the largest online selection at. Honus wagner files at the national baseball hall of fame and museum in cooperstown, new york. A baseball card checklist for honus wagner that includes every baseball card in our baseball card database. Get the latest updated stats for pittsburgh pirates honus wagner on. The 1895 warren pennsylvania baseball team of the old iron and oil league. This book is part of the baseball legends publications which i assume based on this book is a series of capsule histories of hall of fame ballplayers. Crawford 51, tommy leach 48, ty cobb 46 and honus wagner 46. Honus wagner world series stats by baseball almanac.
I guess when you talk about the greatest baseball player who ever lived it has to be either the babe, ty cobb, or honus wagner. I see what wagner did on the field in his own era, and adjust for the competition he faced. Cobb is an intriguing tale of honus wagner s remarkable career in baseball where he was. Honus wagner vintage pittsburg pirates hall of fame baseball photo print 1911. The t206 honus wagner baseball card depicts the pittsburgh pirates honus wagner, a deadball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the best players of all time. The card was designed and issued by the american tobacco. Did you know that in the honus wagner miscellaneous world series items of interest section seen above you can click the stats link under the world series label and a truly comprehensive history of. The card was designed and issued by the american tobacco company atc from 1909 to 1911 as part of its t206 series. Quotes from honus wagner there aint much to being a ballplayer, if youre a ballplayer. Win expectancy, run expectancy, and leverage index calculations provided by tom tango of, and coauthor of the book. Honus wagner by jack kavanagh goodreads share book.
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