Butts Wagner

Albert Wagner (September 17, 1871 – November 26, 1928), was an American professional baseball player. He played one year of Major League Baseball[1] for two different teams during the 1898 season. He was Honus Wagner's older brother.[1]

Butts Wagner
Third baseman
Born: (1871-09-17)September 17, 1871
Chartiers, Carnegie, Pennsylvania
Died: November 26, 1928(1928-11-26) (aged 57)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 27, 1898, for the Washington Senators
Last MLB appearance
October 10, 1898, for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms
MLB statistics
Batting average.226
Home runs1
Runs batted in34
Teams

Career

Born in Chartiers, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, he began the 1898 season with the Washington Senators and later on was loaned to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms.[1] On July 4, Wagner replaced an injured Duke Farrell in center field and hit a home run, the only home run of his career, along with a double and scored three runs in a 9-5 Bridegroom victory.[2]

Wagner died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 57, and is interred at the Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.[3]

Butts Wagner is depicted as an eccentric inventor during a boy's long dream sequence in Joseph Romain's book The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker. Wagner invents an automatic bat machine, and the boy helps defend him from organized crime figures who want to steal the invention.[4] In Dan Gutman's book Honus & Me, the main character Joe Stoshack prefers to be Butts.

References
  1. "Butts Wagner's career statistics". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  2. "1898 Chronology". baseballlibrary.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  3. "Career statistics". retrosheet.org. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  4. "The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker". amazon.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
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