When Joe comes across an extremely valuable Honus Wagner baseball card ... Modine, who had always wanted to do a baseball movie, was impressed by Wagner's character as well as his baseball skills.

When the hammer fell at Mile High Card Company on Saturday night for the $1.98 million sale of a T206 Honus Wagner card, one could be forgiven for thinking this was an extraordinary result.

Thus ended the first skirmish in the war that was the only meeting between Detroit's Ty Cobb and Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner. The Flying Dutchman batted .333 with six runs batted in and six steals ...

He glanced toward the shortstop, who had been the hit leader for the decade just ended. Honus Wagner kept on swinging the stick through the 1917 season, retiring at 43 years of age. The shortstop ...