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Originally Posted by z28jd
If you search "Honus Wagner" on Newspapers dot com during his career, you will find 26,000 papers that call him Honus.
If you search "Hans Wagner" during that same time period, you will get 96,000 results.
So it should be more likely that you find a "Hans Wagner" item than a "Honus Wagner" item.
Post career until his death, Hans and Honus were basically used the same amount of times. Both coming in just over 80,000 examples. In reality, we should probably know him better as Hans Wagner, but from 1956 until now the usage is 140,000 Honus, 10,000 Hans, with many of them after the 1950s not being him.
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I can do either Honus or Hans...Wagner's given first name was Johannes, so the Hans nickname makes just as much sense as Honus, and perhaps even slightly more. What I object to is this!:
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Brian (not my PC796 postcard, because I am obviously a Honus/Hans man...see above)