AFRS WAR DEPARTMENT Sports Interviews: Honus Wagner (1943) TIMESTAMPED with Enhanced Audio

Joe Hassle is back with Sports Interviews talking with early 1900s baseball legend Honus Wagner.

0:00 Joe Hassle's Introduction [Special Services Division of the Armed Forces of the USA Presents Sports Interviews]
1:01 Where does the name "Honus" come in?
1:17 Did you always play shortstop Honus?
1:52 How'd you take up baseball as a profession?
2:42 When was that?
3:02 How'd you do in your first Major League game?
3:24 What year was that? [1897]
3:54 How'd you specialize in two and three base hits?
5:00 In 1900 you led the National League in Home Runs, how many did you hit? [10, didn't seem like a whole lot]
5:22 Strangest play you've ever seen?
6:38 That was one you've been in, what's the strangest you've ever seen? [Jack Murray of New York]
7:36 Do you think the game was rougher in your day than it is today?
10:54 Is there one game that you think is the best you've ever played? [Lasts game of 1909 World Series]
12:46 Honus Wagner Baseball Records
13:47 Outro

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