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Honus Wagner

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[Wikipedia] Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner was an American professional baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1897 to 1917, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage, Wagner was a prototypical five-tool p

Quotes by Honus Wagner

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they…

Decision

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

Dollars

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I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have…

Cold

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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…

Baseball

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I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

Black

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

Time

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

Baseball

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I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

Baseball

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