He was 59 here. Still moves around pretty well! The Flying Dutchman.
Amazing footage of Honus Wagner
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Pretty cool, Special thanks to Lute for filming this.
How many hitters today could use a lesson in hitting to the opposite field like Wagner shows as an old man?
“I started out in 1889….”
You don’t hear that every day.
You don’t hear that every day.
It's so different watching the first round of playoffs now. They play the old normal amount of small ball and it seems like the game is back in the 20th century. The contrast between first round and end of regular season decisions with runners on is night and day.
The video is from 1933, which was Wagner's first year as a hitting instructor and 3rd base coach with the Pirates. He was born in 1874 and got his start in professional baseball in 1889, as a 15 year old.
One of the things I love about my job is inspecting very old bridges, pilings and abutments for my railroad. The old steel bridges that we have, of which there are around 70 in my territory, are wonderfully overbuilt. Some of them are almost as old as Wagner himself. And they'll allow a 15,000 ton train to pass over them with ease well over 100 years after being built. Outside of replacing bracing and cracked plates, or adding reinforcement steel to primary girders, they'll all be around for probably another century.
He actually moves around really well for a 59 yr old, I'm closing in on that age and I'm very active but I don't think these days I could possibly look as smooth and loose as he does in that footage.
I think it's his face that looks rough, and that's probably because he's lost all his teeth. When I think of all the advantages of living at this point in history, modern dentistry and mass fluoridation have got to be some of the main ones. I would probably be in the same boat as Honus if I lived in that era, heck, I've got two implants already in my 50's, and I don't think I've got a single tooth in my mouth that hasn't had work done on it at some point.
He was a racist and must be cancelled with all family wealth conscripted and all accolades stripped!!!
Why are railroads such pricks about people pheasant hunting their right of ways?
No, he wasn't a racist. He was good friends with John Henry Lloyd. And he spoke openly about the amazing talent in the Negro Leagues. Do some research before you feck up a good thread with your bullshit.
Maybe so idiots like yourself don't get hit by trains. Just a thought.
I find old baseball fascinating. Pitcher throwing at your un-helmeted head? Trying to hit with a heavy, short, thick bat? Fielding misshapen baseballs with a primitive glove off a cowpasture-quality field? Pitchers throwing complete games often and >300 innings a year.
