When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.

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Champion, World's Wonder Horse

Television Champion (dates undetermined)

Light sorrel-colored with a bleached mane and tail
4 white stockings
Wide blaze that extended over his nose and lower lip
Gelding
Appeared in Gene's final movies and was in The Gene Autry Show from 1950 to 1955; was also in The Adventures of Champion from 1955 to 1956
Third "official" screen Champion
Inspired a comic book series titled Gene Autry's Champion

Research assistance provided by author Petrine Mitchum.

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