Return to letter index Previous Player:  Lloyd Waner      Next Player:  Jack Wanner    Paul Waner () Full name: Paul Glee Waner Known as: Big Poison Born: April 16, 1903 in Harrah, OK Height: N/A Weight: 153 lb. Paul Waner played in the major leagues for 19 years. His lifetime batting average was .296. Comments on Paul Waner Posted by David D.   Casey Stengel said Paul Waner was "a very graceful player, because he could slide without breaking the bottle in his hip pocket." Waner said there was an advantage to playing drunk, because the ball was blurry so there was "more of it to hit." What he said must have had some truth to it, because he received 3 NL batting titles, and had a career batting average of .333 with 3,152 hits over 20 years. Add a new comment