Walter McQueen Stephenson (March 27, 1911, in

Saluda, North Carolina Saluda is a city in Polk and Henderson counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 713 at the 2010 census. Saluda is famous for sitting at the top of the Norfolk Southern Railway's Saluda Grade, which was the steepest main line ...

– July 4, 1993, in

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), nicknamed "Tarzen", was an American professional baseball player who played

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in the Major Leagues from 1935 to 1937. He played for the

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and

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