{{Short description|American baseball player (1871–1928)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Butts Wagner |position=Third baseman |image=Butts Wagner.jpg |image_size=157px |birth_date={{birth date|1871|9|17}} |birth_place= Chartiers, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1928|11|26|1871|9|17}} |death_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |bats=Right |throws=Right |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=April 27 |debutyear={{baseball year|1898}} |debutteam=Washington Senators |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=October 10 |finalyear={{baseball year|1898}} |finalteam=Brooklyn Bridegrooms |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat2label=Home runs |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat1value=.226 |stat2value=1 |stat3value=34 |teams= *Washington Senators ({{baseball year|1898}}) *Brooklyn Bridegrooms ({{baseball year|1898}}) }} '''Albert Wagner''' (September 17, 1871 – November 26, 1928), was an American professional baseball player. He played one year of Major League Baseball<ref name="baseball-reference">{{cite web| title = Butts Wagner's career statistics | work = baseball-reference.com | url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wagnebu01.shtml | accessdate = 2007-08-13 }}</ref> for two different teams during the 1898 season. He was Honus Wagner's older brother.<ref name="baseball-reference"/>
==Career== Born in Chartiers, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, he began the 1898 season with the Washington Senators and later on was loaned to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms.<ref name="baseball-reference"/> On July 4, Wagner replaced an injured Duke Farrell in center field and hit a home run, the only home run of his career, along with a double and scored three runs in a 9–5 Bridegroom victory.<ref name="baseball-library">{{cite web | title = 1898 Chronology | work = baseballlibrary.com | url = http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1898 | accessdate = 2007-08-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071017183606/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1898# | archive-date = 2007-10-17 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Wagner died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 57, and is interred at the Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.<ref name="retrosheet">{{cite web| title = Career statistics | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/W/Pwagnb103.htm | accessdate = 2007-08-13 }}</ref>thumb | right | 1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Albert “Butts” Wagner included
==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.<ref name="amazon">{{cite web| title = The Mystery of the Wagner Whacker | work = amazon.com | url=https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Wagner-Whacker-Warwick-Sports/dp/1895629942 | accessdate = 2007-08-13 }}</ref> In Dan Gutman's book ''Honus & Me'', the main character Joe Stoshack pretends to be Butts to avoid being kicked out of a stadium.
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