My life in baseball: the forgotten manuscript of a big league legend who preceded Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth as the National Pastime's first 20th-century superstar gives a fascinating glimpse of what life was like around the grand old game during its early years.

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Athletic Arena; 'Honus Wagner: On His Life & Baseball' - Excerpt

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My life in baseball: the forgotten manuscript of a big league legend who preceded Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth as the National Pastime's first 20th-century superstar gives a fascinating glimpse of what life was like around the grand old game during its early years.

On Dec. 13, 1923, the man many still consider to be the best all-around player ever to grace the diamond set out to write his autobiography. Through January 1924, he told his story in the form of articles published in the Los Angeles Times and Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Though a book was planned at the time, it never was published--until now. What follows are Wagner k own words as to what baseball aim life were like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

THE BIG TURNING POINT in baseball, the way I look at it, was the war with the American League back in 1900, which lasted for two or three yea...

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