The Honus Wagner card is extremely rare, as production was halted when the ballplayer refused to grant permission to use his likeness Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

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 ...