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This invites your conjectures of the lives and careers of those we know as major league baseball notables had the major leagues never existed as we know them. A few illustrative suggestions:

Babe Ruth learned carpentry at St. Mary's School. Upon leaving that institution, he became a free-lance carpenter, eventually developing his own contracting business. He also entered Baltimore politics, making it as far as City Council, but never getting the nod for the mayoralty.

Tom Glavine wound up skating for the Boston Bruins and the San Jose Sharks in a sixteen year career in the National Hockey League.

Ty Cobb invested heavily in Coca-Cola and General Motors as a businessman in Augusta, GA. When the Ku Klux Klan was revived in 1915, Cobb joined immediately. He rose rapidly, becoming Grand Dragon of Georgia in 1921. His tenure rivaled, and in some ways surpassed that of D. C. Stephenson in Indiana. Though he ran once for governor and once for the U. S. Senate, he failed on both occasions, due in no small part to the uncompromising opposition of the Atlanta Constitution.
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