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Honus Wagner

1874 - 1955

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Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner ( HON-əs WAG-nər; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won his eighth (and final) batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this day, and matched only once, in 1997, by Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times and stolen bases five times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Honus Wagner has received more than 2,129,039 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Honus Wagner is the 373rd most popular athlete (up from 11,637th in 2019), the 5,930th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,342nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Honus Wagner ranks 373 out of 3,059. Before him are Frank Shorter, Erik Lundqvist, Józef Szmidt, Giulio Gaudini, Harri Larva, and Imre Nagy. After him are Archon of Pella, Ottavio Missoni, Sándor Rozsnyói, Netti Witziers-Timmer, József Csermák, and Manuel Plaza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Honus Wagner ranks 149. Before him are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Steve Bloomer, Dmitry Gulia, Abbas Sahhat, Frank Elmore Ross, and Henry Travers. After him are J. C. Leyendecker, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Theodore Lyman IV, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Ernst Streeruwitz, and Emmanuel Célestin Suhard. Among people deceased in 1955, Honus Wagner ranks 109. Before him are Leonardus Nardus, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Fumio Hayasaka, Saadat Hasan Manto, Jenő Fuchs, and Nick Winter. After him are Johannes de Jong, Shemp Howard, Jonni Myyrä, Luís de Freitas Branco, James Agee, and František Janda-Suk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Honus Wagner ranks 5,930 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Anderson (1805), Robert Barro (1944), J. D. Tippit (1924), John Norman (1931), Gregg Toland (1904), and Brent Scowcroft (1925). After him are Randal Kleiser (1946), Helen Walton (1919), Jessica Jaymes (1979), Sidney Howard (1891), Gerald McRaney (1947), and George Eads (1967).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Honus Wagner ranks 80. Before him are Eddie Tolan (1908), Tyson Gay (1982), Henry Russell (1904), John Thomas (1941), Frank Loomis (1896), and Allen Woodring (1898). After him are Frank Foss (1895), Bobby Morrow (1935), Bud Houser (1901), Lindy Remigino (1931), Frank Irons (1886), and Bill Carr (1909).

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