The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

Naturally, living near Pittsburgh and all, my idol was Honus Wagner, and I tried to do everything just like he did. I even tried to walk like him. Wagner lived in Carnegie, which wasn’t far from where we lived, and lots of times I’d see him out there playing baseball with the kids after the Pirates’ game was over. A wonderful man, he was.