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Honus “The Flying Dutchman” Wagner dominated the dead-ball era—over a stellar 21-season career (1897–1917), he amassed 3,420 hits, 640 doubles, 252 triples, 101 home runs, 1,732 RBIs, and 723 stolen bases, finishing with a .328 batting average, .391 on-base percentage, .467 slugging, and a career 131 WAR—all while leading the National League in batting eight times, slugging six times, stolen bases five times, and RBIs four times. In the first-ever Baseball Hall of Fame vote on February 2, 1936, Wagner earned 95.1% of the writers’ ballots—215 of 226—making him one of the five charter inductees in the inaugural class.
