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Originally Posted by Leon
Back in the pre-war era many of the big stars had off season jobs to make ends meet. IF I am not mistaking Christy Mathewson worked at a service station (or something like that) in the off season. They had to make money some way and baseball wasn't like it is today, when some non-starters gets millions of dollars a yr.
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And not only pre-war. There used to be yearly articles when he played in Detroit about how Richie Hebner dug graves in the off season.
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