Honus Wagner
FameRank: 4

"As player"

* Louisville Colonels (–)

* Pittsburgh Pirates (–)

"As manager"

* Pittsburgh Pirates

"As coach"

*Pittsburgh Pirates (–)

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* World Series champion

* 8× List of Major League Baseball batting champions/NL batting champion (1900, 1903, 1904, 1906–1909, 1911)

* 5× List of Major League Baseball runs batted in champions/NL RBI champion (1901, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1912)

* 5× List of Major League Baseball stolen base champions/NL stolen base champion (1901, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1908)

* Pittsburgh Pirates#Retired numbers/Pittsburgh Pirates #33 retired

* Major League Baseball All-Century Team

* Major League Baseball All-Time Team

/hofdate=Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1936/1936

/hofvote=95.13% (first ballot)

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I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

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Even a bad one that's torn is worth $65,000.

270

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

243

I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.

191

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.

174

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

148

He was one of the greatest pitchers of all time. He (was) the smartest pitcher I've ever seen.

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