Honus (“Hans”) Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear-ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER.

The Honus Wagner card is extremely rare ... sold by the Southern California auction house SCP Auctions in its third hand-off in recent years, they confirmed. The card previously sold in 2014 ...

Wagner played for the Pirates from 1900 to 1917. Before that, he spent three years with the Louisville Colonels. Nicknamed “The Flying Dutchman”, Wagner is considered one of the greatest shortstops of ...

Thus ended the first skirmish in the war that was the only meeting between Detroit's Ty Cobb and Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner. The Flying Dutchman batted .333 with six runs batted in and six steals ...

He glanced toward the shortstop, who had been the hit leader for the decade just ended. Honus Wagner kept on swinging the stick through the 1917 season, retiring at 43 years of age. The shortstop ...