The city was then without professional baseball for the next 15 years.
He did not make another game in professional baseball during the 1897 season.
At 33 years old, he'd been playing professional baseball for half his life.
His back felt better, and he decided to return to playing professional baseball.
He later played professional baseball for five years from 1948 to 1952.
But more than anything, he wanted to play professional baseball.
York tried for ten years to bring professional baseball back to the city.
He lost the use of his right eye and never played professional baseball again.
However, that was his last full season in professional baseball.
It gave the family a case study in professional baseball.