Honus Wagner Art Hand drawn Honus Wagner Art. Graphite on heavy weight Bristol Board. 9X12 #ba14 $75.00 Free Shipping Within The Continental U.S. "Great American Baseball Art will of course not be on your original portrait. Contact Me To Purchase This Original Portrait or use the Pay Pal Link Below. You can use your credit card through Pay Pal. Return From Honus Wagner Art To Baseball Art
This guy is probably my favorite old time famous baseball player. The Flying Dutchman won eight National League batting titles which ties him with Tony Gwynn for the most. Honus played short stop. He led the National League in Slugging percentage six times and stolen bases five times. Honus Wagner retired in 1908 but the Pirates convinced him to come back by offering him a $10,000 a year salary. This made Honus the highest paid player. His lifetime batting average is .327 to go along with his 3,415 hits. Honus only hit 100 home runs during his career but he drove in 1,732 runs placing him 20th all time. He is also tenth all time in stolen bases. In 1952, the Pirates retired Wagner's number 33. He played his enitre career before numbers were worn, but coached for the Bucs for for 39 years during which he wore number 33. In 1936 when the Hall Of Fame opened, Honus Wagner was part of the original class. He tied for second in the balloting with Babe Ruth. Both finished behind Ty Cobb. Look closely at the photo above. These are the original inductees for the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Honus Wagner is at the top left. Notice that Ty Cobb is not in the photo. The story goes that Cobb was a few minutes late and since the other inductees didn't like him very much, they went ahead and took the picture without Ty Cobb. A bronze statue of Honus Wagner stands outside the Pirates PNC Park. Originally located at Forbes Field, the statue was moved when the Bucs moved to Three Rivers Stadium. In 1909, the American Tobacco Company designed and released baseball player cards on the back of their cigarette packs. Honus Wagner's was one of them. They were produced from 1909 until 1911. Honus then refused to allow any more of his to be produced. It was either because he didn't want kids buying cigarettes to get his card or it was over compensation. The story is un-clear. In 1933, a Honus Wagner card was sold for $50.00 making it the most valuable card ever. In 2007, a near mint Wagner card was sold in Los Angeles for $2.35 million! Honus Wagner was inducted into Baseball's Hall Of Fame in 1936 as part of the original class.
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