I'm going to look at the major league players one by one. As I looked at the baseball players, I picked my favorite legendary shortstop Honus Wagner as my first player.
Honus Wagner was born on February 24, 1874 in the Chartiers region (now Carnegie region) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's called Flying Dutchman, but it's a German family. Honus Wagner quit school at the age of 12 to help his father and began working in a coal mine. He was one of the nine siblings, and he played a lot of baseball with his brothers during the playtime, so two of the brothers continued to play baseball besides Honus Wagner.
Honus Wagner debuted at the Louisville Colonels in the National League on July 19, 1897, where he played for three seasons, but Louisville was withdrawn from the major leagues with three other teams in 1899. And sent to Pittsburgh Pirates. He then retired after 18 years in Pittsburgh until 1917. I made his record in the form of a baseball card.
He was excellent in all defensive positions and was the best in all of his batting and base runs. He even played as a pitcher 3 innings in 1900 and 5.1 innings in 1902.
He had eight batting champion awards (2nd place to Ty Cobb's 11), five RBI champion awards and five stolen base champion awards, and had 14 continuous years over .300 batting average. In addition, he had a tremendous number of records, including three best WARs, four on-base rate champion awards, six slugging percentage champion awards, eight times OPS top player, the first player over 1.000 OPS, and two hits champion awards. fWAR has been ranked No. 1 for NL for 10 consecutive years. This is the best record in the major leagues. He is also the first player to surpass $ 10,000.
In 1912, at age 38, he became the national league's oldest player and, in 1914, broke 3,000 hits. For the first time in the twentieth century, he also has a record of two home steals and one of the oldest inside park home runs in 1916. He played 2,794 games, 24th in the major leagues. His batting average was .328, 35th overall. He had 3,420 hits, 8th in the major leagues. He had 101 home runs, 723 stolen bases, ranked 10th in the league.
The Pittsburgh Pirates made two advances to the World Series with Honus Wagner. The 1903 World Series played against the Boston Americans, the predecessor of the Boston Red Sox, but, unfortunately failed to reach the top due to injury to players and Honus Wagner playing badly. Fortunately, they won in 1909 World Series to the Detroit Tigers.
Honus Wagner was first recruited to the Major League Hall of Fame in 1936 (Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, and Honus Wagner).
Honus Wagner Statue (from Wiki)
The statue of Honus Wagner is erected at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. And his number 33 was retired forever in 1956. When he was a player, there was no back number. Number 33 was his coach number.
Honus Wagner Baseball T206 Card (from Wiki)
Honus Wagner's T206 Baseball card is said to be the most expensive baseball card in the world. It has been to auctions a few times and kept changing records. Recently, it was auctioned on May 29, 2019, and was sold for $ 1.2 million and renewed its highest price.
This card was made in 1909 by a tobacco company. The Honors Wagner's hate for smoking was the only reason why only 200 cards were released. Currently, there remain about 50 cards only, of which 12 are valuable cards.
Major League all-time number one shortstop Honus Wagner. I'll put some pictures of him last.
Wagner's Locker in Hall of Fame (from Wiki)
Wagner's life Book (from Amazon)
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