Robert Wiggins (September 28, 1933 – November 16, 2012) was an outfielder who played in the

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in 1959 and 1960 for the Raleigh Tigers and

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. He was drafted into the Army in 1953. In the mid-to-late 1950s, he played semi-professional baseball for the Chicago Brown Bombers, Chicago Giants and Mobile Black Barons, earning a tryout with the Chicago White Sox in 1958, though they did not sign him. He later received an invitation from the

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, who also did not give him a contract. He died at the age of 79 on November 16, 2012.

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