Jeanne and Dennis DeValeria are writers and historians who live and work in Pittsburgh. They are widely recognized as the foremost experts on Honus Wagner's life and career. Their book, Honus Wagner, received the annual Baseball Weekly Award at the 1995 national convention of the Society for American Baseball Research.
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Honus Wagner, whose career in baseball stretched from 1895 to 1917, was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century. One of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in its first year (1939), he was arguably the... SEE MORE