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Originally Posted by Mark17
I've read that Wagner used to play ball with kids after games. You have to be a pretty nice guy to do that. Hans Lobert said Wagner was a very fine fellow who loved a good joke.
And if the widely accepted version of the T206 story is true, he went out of his way to not allow his name to help sell tobacco products.
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Wagner and Speaker, among others, blackballed players of color from the National Baseball Congress semi-pro tournament a year after Satchel Paige and his integrated team won it.
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