Players who are more known for a card than their career.

[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

There are hundreds of other books about baseball from which one learns about Honus Wagner the great player, not Honus Wagner the card.

So Bilko, Honus Wagner is *an* answer to the question, but not a very good one. There are quite a number of answers given in this thread that are not even debatable - I think that makes them much better answers.

Your point about non-debatable answers being better makes a lot of sense to me. But saying that Wagner is "not a very good answer" sounds to me like you're saying Bilko's opinion is wrong because it differs from yours.

That said, for each of the hundreds of baseball books that speak of Wagner the player and not Wagner the card, how many other forms of media exposures do you suppose exist that discuss just Wagner the card? I have absolutely no numbers to back this up, but if I had to guess, I'd say there are just as many articles, blog posts, news reports, etc. that discuss Wagner the card. In fact, with how things syndicate so easily across the Internet, I'm guessing those articles also get as much or more views/imprints/etc as any of those books.

Until we qualify the audience, I'm certainly of the opinion -- based on people I've encountered -- that Wagner is known more because of his card than because of his exploits on a baseball diamond.

Regards,

Richard.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by cdn_collector

Your point about non-debatable answers being better makes a lot of sense to me. But saying that Wagner is "not a very good answer" sounds to me like you're saying Bilko's opinion is wrong because it differs from yours.

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Regards,

Richard.

No. Bilko said Wagner was "easily the best fit" for the question, and further that Wagner was the perfect answer.

Anyone can have an opinion, but when you phrase it like that, you invite informed criticism.

Wagner is not "easily the best fit" for the question, and far from the perfect answer.

Cheers,
Blair