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Honoring Honus Wagner Most Expensive Card T206 Honus Wagner and

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Honoring Honus Wagner Most Expensive Card T206 Honus Wagner and Signed Baseball is a painting by Richard W Linford which was uploaded on May 29th, 2010. The painting may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.
Honoring Honus Wagner This is my oil painting of the legendary baseball shortstop Honus Wagner as depicted by the baseball card T206 Honus Wagner. I have also included the signed ball with Honus' signature. This is the most expensive baseball card in the world and the most well known baseball card in the world as well. There are 57 known copies. The American Tobacco Company (ATC) issued the card. The years were 1909 thru 1911 and the card was part of the T206 series. Honus refused to permit the ATC to continue publishing the card after somewhere between 50 and 200 were given out to the public. In 1933 the card was listed for $50 in Jefferson Burdick's The American Card Catalog. Wayne Gretzky recently sold the card to a collector for $2.3 million. Today it is priceless. Honus' batting average was .327. He had 3,415 hits and 1,732 runs batted in. He played for the Louisville Colonels from 1897 to 1899 and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1900 to 1917. He was also a Coach and Manager for the Pirates. It was said of Honus by one pitcher by the name of Mathewson that he was the only player that didn't have a weakness or groove and the only way to keep him from hurting you was not to pitch to him. His full name was Johannes Peter Honus Wagner. He was also nicknamed The Flying Dutchman due to his speed and German origins. One account in Wikipedia states Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the most in NL history with Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times, and in stolen bases five times. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame and was inducted as one of its first five members. He received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb and tied with Babe Ruth. My motivation for the painting was the story about Honus integrity in refusing to permit the Tobacco Company to publish more of his cards because he did not want children to buy tobacco to get his card. Some suggest the story is not true and that he just wanted more money from the Tobacco Company. I choose to believe the former story after I experienced what I like to call the integrity demise of a number of today's sports heroes.

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