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Julie Vognar his death. He was a great player (catcher) and slugger of the Negro Leagues, and died of a heart attack before 1947. There were people considerinbg him for the Jackie Robinson role, but felt he was not as temperamentally suited to it as Jackie was. He wasn't ass young as Jackie, either (Jackie was born in 1918, himself).
I'm sure they're lots of people who know more about him than I do.