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What did the baseball players do after they had been banned?

What happened to the baseball players when they were banned from baseball you might be asking?  All of the players then went into other occupations.  


Eddie Cicotte returned to Michigan and lived under a pseudonym in order to protect his family from people who tease them.

Arnold "Chick" Gandil was a plumber after he was banned from baseball.  

Claude "Lefty" Williams stayed in Laguana Beach, California and ran a garden nursery.

Oscar "Happy" Felsch went back to Milwaukee and played sandlot ball.

Swede Risberg later played semi-pro baseball and then got involved in the tavern and lumber business until his death in 1975.

Buck Weaver worked odd jobs, played semi-pro ball and sandlot ball, managed a women's team, was painter, and worked in the drugstore business.

Fred Mcmullin returned to Los Angeles and became a deputy marshall for the U.S. Marshalls office.

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson opened a dry cleaning business in Savannah, Georgia.