Ronald T. Waldo, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, lives in Pittsburgh. His articles have appeared in Pittsburgh Pride Magazine and Sports Collectors Digest, and he is the author of several books on baseball history.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. From Carnegie to Pittsburgh, by Way of Louisville2. Bilson Jack, a Louisville Hearse Ride and Wagner’s Early Days in Baseball3. Rough-and-Tumble Fred Clarke4. Trains, Dining Cars, Theaters and the Stage5. The Game of Baseball as Seen Through Wagner’s Eyes6. Ham Hyatt’s Slugging Prowess, a Battle with Turkey Mike and Jimmy Viox’s Mad Dash7. Tommy Leach, Truck Eagan, Bill McKechnie and Other Teammates8. Adversaries from the Cubs, Giants and Fellow National League Clubs9. Baseball’s Greatest Player Enjoying Life’s Simple Pleasures10. Encounters with the American Worker, an Angry Rabbit and Austrian Royalty11. “First in the Hearts of Baseball Fans”Appendix: Career StatisticsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Waldo gives an entertaining compilation of the familiar and not so familiar yarns touching Wagner and those around him. In doing so he captures the temper and tone of the era.... What is undeniable is that this is a labor of love, a very individual expression of Waldo’s long held affection for the early Pirates.”—Gail Rowe, The Inside Game (SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter).

Ronald T. Waldo, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, lives in Pittsburgh. His articles have appeared in Pittsburgh Pride Magazine and Sports Collectors Digest, and he is the author of several books on baseball history.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. From Carnegie to Pittsburgh, by Way of Louisville2. Bilson Jack, a Louisville Hearse Ride and Wagner’s Early Days in Baseball3. Rough-and-Tumble Fred Clarke4. Trains, Dining Cars, Theaters and the Stage5. The Game of Baseball as Seen Through Wagner’s Eyes6. Ham Hyatt’s Slugging Prowess, a Battle with Turkey Mike and Jimmy Viox’s Mad Dash7. Tommy Leach, Truck Eagan, Bill McKechnie and Other Teammates8. Adversaries from the Cubs, Giants and Fellow National League Clubs9. Baseball’s Greatest Player Enjoying Life’s Simple Pleasures10. Encounters with the American Worker, an Angry Rabbit and Austrian Royalty11. “First in the Hearts of Baseball Fans”Appendix: Career StatisticsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Waldo gives an entertaining compilation of the familiar and not so familiar yarns touching Wagner and those around him. In doing so he captures the temper and tone of the era.... What is undeniable is that this is a labor of love, a very individual expression of Waldo’s long held affection for the early Pirates.”—Gail Rowe, The Inside Game (SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter).

Ronald T. Waldo, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, lives in Pittsburgh. His articles have appeared in Pittsburgh Pride Magazine and Sports Collectors Digest, and he is the author of several books on baseball history.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. From Carnegie to Pittsburgh, by Way of Louisville2. Bilson Jack, a Louisville Hearse Ride and Wagner’s Early Days in Baseball3. Rough-and-Tumble Fred Clarke4. Trains, Dining Cars, Theaters and the Stage5. The Game of Baseball as Seen Through Wagner’s Eyes6. Ham Hyatt’s Slugging Prowess, a Battle with Turkey Mike and Jimmy Viox’s Mad Dash7. Tommy Leach, Truck Eagan, Bill McKechnie and Other Teammates8. Adversaries from the Cubs, Giants and Fellow National League Clubs9. Baseball’s Greatest Player Enjoying Life’s Simple Pleasures10. Encounters with the American Worker, an Angry Rabbit and Austrian Royalty11. “First in the Hearts of Baseball Fans”Appendix: Career StatisticsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Waldo gives an entertaining compilation of the familiar and not so familiar yarns touching Wagner and those around him. In doing so he captures the temper and tone of the era.... What is undeniable is that this is a labor of love, a very individual expression of Waldo’s long held affection for the early Pirates.”—Gail Rowe, The Inside Game (SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter).