had numerous financial difficulties after his baseball career ended. He lived in an abandoned electrical shed next to a dumpster in Los Angeles, which is where his lifeless body was found on January 3, 2004. The coroner ruled that Wagner had died of natural causes. References External links Leon Wagner at SABR (Baseball BioProject) Leon Wagner at Baseball Almanac Leon Wagner at American Heroes Cooperstown Confidential: The sad saga of Leon Wagner Leon Wagner Chronology & biography at This Day In Baseball 1934 births 2004 deaths African-American baseball players American League All-Stars Baseball players from Tennessee Chicago White Sox players Cleveland Indians players Hawaii Islanders players Los Angeles Angels players Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVPs Major League Baseball left fielders Native American sportspeople San Francisco Giants players Sportspeople from Chattanooga, Tennessee St. Louis Cardinals players Tuskegee Golden Tigers baseball players 20th-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American people Native American people from Tennessee