Honus Wagner's 3,000th Hit

Honus Wagner was forty years old and in his eighteenth major league season when he singled against Cincinnati on June 28, 1914. It was his only hit of the afternoon, in four at-bats, and Pittsburgh lost the game 1–0.

Wagner had been the National League's dominant player for a decade and a half, a shortstop who led the league in batting eight times and in stolen bases five. He had come to Pittsburgh in 1900 from Louisville and stayed through 1917, and by the time he finished he had 3,420 hits, 643 doubles, 252 triples and 723 stolen bases against a .328 career average.

Nap Lajoie would reach the same figure three months later, in September of the same season. Wagner was among the first five men elected to the Hall of Fame when the voting began in 1936.