Butts Wagner

Butts Wagner

Infobox MLB retired
name=Butts Wagner
position=Third Baseman


bgcolor1=#000066
bgcolor2=#000066
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
birthdate=September 17, 1871
deathdate=death date and age|1928|11|26|1871|5|7
bats=Right
throws=Right
debutdate=April 27
debutyear=1898
debutteam=Washington Senators
finaldate=October 10
finalyear=1898
finalteam=Brooklyn Bridegrooms
stat1label=Batting average
stat2label=Home Runs
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat1value=.226
stat2value=1
stat3value=34
teams=
*Washington Senators (1898)
*Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1898)
highlights=

Albert "Butts" Wagner (September 17, 1871 - November 26, 1928) played one year of Major League Baseball.cite web| title = Butts Wagner's career statistics | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wagnebu01.shtml | accessdate = 2007-08-13 ]

Career

Born in Chartiers, Pennsylvania, he began the 1898 season with the Washington Senators and later on was loaned to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. On July 4, Wanger 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.cite web| title = 1898 Chronolgy | work = baseballlibrary.com | url=http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1898 | accessdate = 2007-08-13 ] He is Honus Wagner's older brother.

Wagner died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 57, and was interred at the Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.cite web| title = Career statistics | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/W/Pwagnb103.htm | accessdate = 2007-08-13 ]

Popular culture

Butts Wagner is depicted as a eccentric inventor during a boy's long dream sequence in the 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 machine.cite web| title = The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker | work = amazon.com | url=http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Wagner-Whacker-Warwick-Sports/dp/1895629942 | accessdate = 2007-08-13 ]

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