Player notes: Honus Wagner is rightfully regarded as the greatest shortstop to ever play the game. Almost a half a century since his death, he remains as one of the icons of the game, a standard by which greatness is still measured.

He won eight batting championships (including six of seven fron 1903 through 1909), and led the league in doubles seven times, in RBI five times, in stolen bases five times, and in extra base hits seven times. He was also an outstanding shortstop, said to throw the ball to first base so hard that the pebbles he had scooped up would arrive at the bag along with the ball. Branch Rickey called him the greatest player he had ever seen.

Wagner was also a man of principle, who was said to have turned down a significant increase in salary to jump to the American League because he like Pittsburgh. He also asked that his picture be removed from his 1909 baseball card because the card was distributed by a tobacco company. Some of the cards had already been distributed, however, and the card is now one of the most expensive and famous of the old baseball cards.