Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner

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• short-stop

[ddrose06]

let's reverse the argument. let's tell jeter, arod et al, he's gotta bus/train it to the games, and share a bed with rube wadell, and he's gotta produce or he's goin' to be working in a coal mine for the rest of his life. those men might not be able to compete in today's game, but godammit, they were tough sonsofbitches. finally, there are no aterisks beside any of there numbers. correct me if i'm wrong. i'm not a fanatic, or a "real" sports expert..

[BudmanPackfan]

Honus is the greatest shortstop of all time. He has the 12th best fielding of ALL position players at .947, & is 2nd all time for shortstops (Ripken is 1st). To that end, I'd love to see Ripken play with that undersized chunck of leather they called a fielding glove back in Wagner's day!! lol. & he is one of the greatest right handed hitters of all time!

I get frustrated with people who just talk off the top of their head on YT. My thinking is you are already on the Internet, check it out

[JaVolimBosna]

deutscherNAZI

[brianwells456comcast]

@ThomasMcElroy1 Honus Wagner weighed 200 pounds of solid muscle,had huge hands,was timed 10 seconds flat in 100 yard dash,won a throwing contest by throwing the ball just over 403 feet in the air.Even apart from his great stats,it would seem from measurable facts that he would be MUCH more than capable of "hanging with the best" players today.Mantle`s rookie season was 60 years ago How many active players can hit the ball over 500 feet AND get down to first base in 3.1 seconds like Mantle?Zero.

[reyes2303MS]

@ThomasMcElroy1 actually every single "older heroes" are 1000x better then every single player today.

[ThomasMcElroy1]

These older heroes of all sports where no doubt, talented but, they are no way capable of hanging with the best of this era or any superstars that come our way in the future. The reality of explaining this is, although they were considered to be an A+ player of there time, there was nowhere near as many A, A- or B+ players in that era....Bottom Line!.....Every year the talent pool for every single sport only gets deeper and deeper as the years roll by.

[Shivierie]

At least old ball players didn't feel the need to use performance enhancing drugs...

[brianwells456comcast]

@sloppyoscar I agree totally.I also think Wagner would of much rather deal with today`s slider than yesteryear`s spit ball (which was perfectly legal during Wagner`s career).Wagner also spent his whole career during the "dead ball"age when the same ball would be used throughout the whole game. Wagner weighed 200 pounds and ran the 100 yard dash in 10 seconds flat-he WOULD be awesome in today`s game!Wagner was considered by many as the greatest all around player ever.

[Wehategod]

what a Player he was he had a great career and he was a Louisville Colonel untill 1900 when he along with the rest of Colonels I believe were sold to the Pittsburgh. The Royal Rooters gave him hell in the first World Series

[manco82]

Honus Wagner was the greatest baseball player of all time, period.

[TheJaycee00]

honus wagner greatest baseball player ive seen

[sloppyoscar]

Players today as a rule are larger and faster than ones of years gone by but .... Wagner could throw a baseball approx 400+ feet in his prime according to accounts later mentioned in Baseball Digest. That is *rare* -- even nowadays . He was about as tall as todays average player and heavily muscled. Yes, he'd be awesome in today's game once he adjusted to the slider and the newer lighter bats. Talent is talent regardless of when