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Posted By: Bob Beyerle

I drink beer, but that doesn't mean I'd want my likeness promoting it to kids- (especially for the paltry promo fees they got in those days), any T card set Wagner was in was marginal (T216). He's missing from T3, T202, T205. But he's in all the candy issues? And it was about the money? ($10 bucks for a guy making 10 GRAND a year). Read Bill James on Wagner, read a few of the multiple Wagner biographies. It was not about money. My guess about the Louisville cigar was a young,shy Wagner helping out a local friend (probably reluctantly). The other Wagner cigars most likely were bootlegs or not released at all (in the bands case).

As for "The Card"; anyone claiming it hasn't been trimmed (from a proof, sheet, advertisement poster, or whatever else) can not be taken seriously.