A 1930 advertisement or Mail Pouch Tobacco featuring Lewis “Hack” Wilson of the Chicago Cubs:
“The fellow that invented Mail Pouch sure knew what he was doing.”
Wilson was broke four months before his death (in 1948, at age 48). In an effort to help him, he was promoted by the city of Baltimore from laborer to swimming pool manager; he told a reporter from the Associated Press:
“I guess getting back into baseball is all I think about now, but so far I haven’t had much success. I’ve written to almost all the important men I know, but the answer is always the same—‘sorry, we’re all filled up.'”
Wilson talks with Baltimore children at the municipal pool he managed, July 1948
Baseball History Daily 
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