Trivia

The most expensive sports card is the American Tobacco Company 1909 Wagner from its T-206 series. Included in packages of cigarettes, Wagner demanded that his card be withdrawn; only 50 are known to exist. On 15 July 2000 a PSA-graded NM-MT 8 Wagner sold on eBay for $1,265,000, breaking its own record of $640,500 set in 1996. As two of its previous owners were Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall, who bought it in 1991, PSA dubbed the card the "McNall/Gretzky" to distinguish it from the other Wagners. On 31 August 2007, the "McNall/Gretzky" Wagner was sold to an unidentified buyer for a record $2.8 million, just over six months after it was bought for a then-record $2.35 million.

Played baseball from 1897-1917. All his years were in the National League. All but three of those years he played he played for his hometown Pittsburgh team.

National League record: 8 time batting champ

National League record: 15 straight seasons hitting .300 or better.

Retired with the most hits in 1917 at 3415.

Retired from profesional baseball in 1917 at the age of fourty-three. That winter in late December he got married to his long time love. He never married before or after. The reason he never married when he played baseball was he said marriage and family don't work for a ballplayer. Shortly after he retired he tried acting in front of the camera in short short comedies.

The Three Stooges Scrapbook states that Moe Howard and Honus Wagner may have made as many as a dozen two-reel shorts together but no record of these films endures.

One of 5 players in the inaugural class elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. Induction ceremony was held in 1939 for the first four classes.

From 1919-1922 he appeared in 19 films. Twelve of those were two-reel comedies with Moe and Shemp Howard.

Dropped out of high school.

He had no intention of ever becoming an athlete or working anywhere other than a coal mine, where he was discovered.

His number 33 jersey was retired by the Pirates in 1952.