He. Wagner Bat on right shoulder

This card files under the long descriptive tag "He. Wagner Bat on right shoulder," a T206 White Border pose of Pittsburgh Pirates star John Peter "Honus" Wagner showing the bat resting on his right shoulder rather than held across the chest. The "He." prefix is the printed abbreviation cataloguers use to disambiguate Honus Wagner from Heinie Wagner of the Red Sox in period checklists, though the player here is Honus — the National League's dominant shortstop, born February 24, 1874 in Chartiers, Pennsylvania, batting and throwing right-handed. By the 1909 season Wagner was 35 and coming off four straight NL batting titles, leading the Pirates over Detroit in that fall's World Series. The T206 set is most famous, of course, for a different Wagner card — the suppressed portrait that has become the most valuable trading card in any sport — but the standard batting variations like this one circulated freely. Wagner died December 6, 1955 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and was a charter member of the Hall of Fame in 1936, one of the original five elected with Cobb, Ruth, Mathewson, and Johnson.