[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Now let's try to get you at least a little familiar with the Nocturnauts' current hitting coach, Matt Wagoner. This may be a moderately long post, but hopefully it won't be too long, compared to the other introductory posts already posted in this thread, or which will be posted later, of course, folks. With no further ado, let's get started with introducing him to you all. Also, there will be pictures of the team's uniforms at the bottom of this post as well, for that matter, just so you know. Hope you get to being more interested in him as time passes here, as well.

Matt Wagoner was born on November 7, 1901 in San Bernardino, California to Stanley and the former Bethany Poole as their second son and third child. Most of his childhood was spent living in southern California, before Stanley's employer sent him east to head a new branch of the company in Missouri. By the time his ninth birthday rolled around, Matt was already in Missouri with the rest of his immediate family, living in Chesterfield. He then spent the rest of his childhood and his adolescence in the St. Louis area before being graduated from high school in 1920.

After high school, he went to college in Duluth, Minnesota, eventually meeting his future boss Garrett Salvador, among others he met while attending college at the University of Minnesota's Duluth campus. He met his future wife Manaba Wenona Kennard for the first time as well, but took a good deal of time building a relationship with her, first based on friendship, and then, when the road was sufficiently clear to do so, on true love. He asked her for her hand in mid-August 1931, and they ultimately participated in a four-couple wedding ceremony about a year later, more or less.

They soon settled temporarily in New Mexico, but eventually found themselves moving to Kentucky by the time the United States finally entered World War II on the side of the Allies. Seeing as he and his wife already had produced three children by that time, the government didn't call him for active-duty service in the Armed Forces of the United States. They instead allowed him to stay completely Stateside, and help the nation's overall war effort by keeping morale up better on the home front through coaching for civilian sports teams and doing assorted columns in various Kentucky-based newspapers.

When the war ended, Matt was soon hired by the recently-created Minnesota Nocturnauts as their first hitting coach. This will be his second season with them, but as of yet, he's not had much success in his time with them. He hopes that changes soon, of course, because he'd like to stay with the Nocturnauts for as long as he can, most definitely.

He lives with his wife and their now-four children (Anthony, Susan, Jocelyn, and Henry) in Duluth, not far from the Nocturnauts' home park. Anthony is now 12, Susan 9, Jocelyn 7, and Henry 3, as of early February 1947. Anthony and Susan are the most interested of his four children in sports, while Jocelyn and Henry don't yet seem to have any real interest in such things for themselves. He thinks Tony may potentially become a good baseball player in the future, but doesn't yet know whether he will or not, of course.

When not working or spending time with those close enough to him in his life, Matt can often be found trying to compose various pieces of music, mostly ones that are classical or jazz-style in their natures, with occasional influences from various cultures from all over the world. Or reading almost anything he can get his hands on well enough. He avoids horror stories or murder mysteries, for example, if and whenever he can. He is currently the best cook in the family, but Susan and Jocelyn are now seriously beginning to challenge his current status as such, even though they're both still quite young in their respective mortal lives.

Matt loves living in Minnesota, but he still hopes to do a good deal of traveling all over the world whenever he can in the future. For instance, he's never been anywhere in Africa or the Middle East. But he would really like to see the Pyramids of Egypt or travel down the Congo River later on in his life, if he possibly can, for sure.

Picture(s) and other information and all about and/or related sufficiently to him will be shown and/or shared as circumstances allow and warrant later on, I"m sure, folks. Lord willing and all, of course, that is. I think that this is enough information to share about him at this time, as well, for that matter.

The Minnesota Nocturnauts' uniforms that I made myself are below. Caps will be in the next post, which will most likely relate to the Nocturnauts' current scouting director Brian Akers. I'll try to have a profile up for him as soon as I can, of course. Until the next post, then, I'll close this. CD out.