Happy birthday, Honus!
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Vic Davidson, lifelong Carnegie resident, avid baseball fan and historical society special project volunteer, gives a returning guest the thumbs-up during last week’s Honus Wagner birthday celebration.
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Volunteer Don Trischler slices into the festive dessert during last weekend’s “The Flying Dutchman” party, hosted by the Historical Society of Carnegie.
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Honus Wagner expert Don Trischler shares stats and fun facts about “The Flying Dutchman” with state Rep. Anita Kulik during last weekend’s celebration at the Historical Society of Carnegie. Trischler recently revamped the Wagner museum, and folks are encouraged to drop in for baseball and local history.
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Jeff Keenan entertains visitors to the Historical Society of Carnegie, where folks gathered last weekend to celebrate baseball great Honus Wagner’s 149th birthday. Keenan, society secretary, gifted guests replica Wagner baseball cards.
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Cara Schuster, 9, photographs artifacts in the Honus Wagner museum last weekend during “The Flying Dutchman’s” birthday celebration. Schuster is an avid baseball fan and attended the event at the Historical Society of Carnegie with her dad, Brendan Schuster.
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Visitors to the Honus Wagner Museum in Carnegie were treated to cake last weekend, when the Historical Society of Carnegie hosted a birthday party for “The Flying Dutchman,” a Pirate shortstop inducted with the first class into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Cake, conversation and lots of history were on the agenda at the Honus Wagner Museum last weekend, where the Historical Society of Carnegie hosted a 140th birthday party for “The Flying Dutchman.” Honus Wagner, a lifelong Carnegian, started his 21-year baseball career with the Louisville Colonels in 1897; in 1900, he became a Pittsburgh Pirate, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with the first class. State Rep. Anita Kulik and her husband, Joe Kulik, and Brendan Schuster and his daughter, Cara Schuster, were among those who dropped by for The Honus Wagner Experience and to learn more about the baseball great over a slice of cake. Four museums nationwide are dedicated solely to one single baseball player, and Pittsburgh boasts two: the Roberto Clemente Museum in the Strip District, and the Honus Wagner Museum in Carnegie’s historic Husler Building.