Honus Wagner Trades and Transactions

The Honus Wagner trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Honus Wagner has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"Acknowledging that there may have been one or two whose talents were greater, there is no one who has ever played the game that I would be more anxious to have on a baseball team." - Historian / Author Bill James in The Biographical Encyclopedia (2000)

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Honus Wagner
 
 
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Birth Name:   John Peter Wagner
Nickname:   Hans or The Flying Dutchman
Born On:   02-24-1874  (Pisces)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Chartiers, Pennsylvania
Year of Death Data Died On:   12-06-1955
Place of Death Data Died In:   Carnegie, Pennsylvania
Cemetery:   Jefferson Memorial Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Undetermined
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   5-11   Player Weight Chart Weight:   200
First Game:   07-19-1897 (Age 23)
Last Game:   09-17-1917
Draft:   Not Applicable
Honus Wagner

Trades & Transactions

07-00-1897: Sold by Paterson (Atlantic) to Louisville Colonels.
12-08-1899: Traded by Louisville Colonels (with Rube Waddell, Bert Cunningham, Deacon Phillippe, Jack Wadsworth, Chief Zimmer, Tacks Latimer, Tom Messitt, Mike Kelley, Claude Ritchey, Tommy Leach and Fred Clarke) to Pittsburgh Pirates for Jack Chesbro, Paddy Fox, John O'Brien and Art Madison.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Honus Wagner trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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