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We only have ten fingers and ten toes, so it's somewhat forgivable that, somewhere north of 20 you might forget how many hits you have. It's more strange for an entire baseball loving nation to do that, but that's what happened 110 years ago this week when the great Honus Wagner was celebrated for becoming the second player to reach 3,000 hits...weeks before he actually did so.
What accounted for this accounting error? And why do we not really care? And what makes this oddly shaped German man so damn lovable a century later? Mike and Bill look back at his life and career to find out.
Plus happy birthday to Dave Brown and patron request Fred Mitchell!
And farewell to Kevin Batiste and Pat Zachry.
By Mike Bates and Bill Parker4.3
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We only have ten fingers and ten toes, so it's somewhat forgivable that, somewhere north of 20 you might forget how many hits you have. It's more strange for an entire baseball loving nation to do that, but that's what happened 110 years ago this week when the great Honus Wagner was celebrated for becoming the second player to reach 3,000 hits...weeks before he actually did so.
What accounted for this accounting error? And why do we not really care? And what makes this oddly shaped German man so damn lovable a century later? Mike and Bill look back at his life and career to find out.
Plus happy birthday to Dave Brown and patron request Fred Mitchell!
And farewell to Kevin Batiste and Pat Zachry.

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