Butts Wagner

Albert Wagner (September 17, 1871 – November 26, 1928), was an American professional baseball player. He played one year of Major League Baseball for two different teams during the 1898 season. He was Honus Wagner's older brother.

Wagner died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 57, and is interred at the Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. thumb

Popular culture Butts Wagner is depicted as an eccentric inventor during a boy's long dream sequence in Joseph Romain's book The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker. Wagner invents an automatic bat machine, and the boy helps defend him from organized crime figures who want to steal the invention. In Dan Gutman's book Honus & Me, the main character Joe Stoshack pretends to be Butts to avoid being kicked out of a stadium.