
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Lelands: A Campanella Gamer

Lelands: Even the Dodgers Loved Honus Wagner


The broad community of National League baseball welcomed his return, and the Brooklyn Dodgers even threw a gala banquet for him when the Pirates first visited Ebbets Field that year. The coat-and-tie feast was held at the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island where, among many others, celebrities Jack Dempsey, Bill Benswanger, Johnny Evers, and Max Carey toasted their hero. And it was during the course of this formal dinner that Wagner gifted the pocket watch to Max Carey.Carey was a former teammate and close friend of Wagner. He was also the manager of the Dodgers at the time. This watch resided in Max Carey's estate.
SI Features Matt Kemp

Kemp concedes that the attention wore on him. "I wasn't used to going to a restaurant, and there would be 100 cameras outside," he says. Even he attributes his turnaround partly to a new embracing of baseball's monotony. "Everything is repetition in baseball," he says. "When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird."
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