Louisville Colonels
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The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Ec
1882 Louisville Eclipse
Honus Wagner
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Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner was an American professional baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nicknamed "the Flyin
Louisville Colonels
…owner Barney Dreyfuss acquired controlling interest of the Pittsburgh Pirates and brought 14 Colonels players with him, including future Hall of Famers Honus Wagner and Fred Clarke, marking the end of the original Colonels organization and Louisville as a Major League Baseball host city. Honus Wagner recorded his…
Wagner in 1903
Wagner as a player on the Paterson Silk Sox team, 1897. He is third from left in the back row.
Wagner in 1897
Honus Wagner in 1905