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Originally Posted by H I Mcdonough
I'm at 1923 in my current historical replay and Tillie Shafer has turned out to be one of the great hitters of his generation: 3-time MVP, career .343 average, nearly 2500 hits so far.
His real life stats come to an abrupt halt in 1913. My first thought was that perhaps he pulled an Addie Joss and died, but according to baseball-reference he died in 1962. So I looked around on this board and online, but I didn't really see anything that explained why his Major League career ended. Was it an injury? Does anyone happen to know what happened to the real-life Tillie Shafer?
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Tillie Shafer came from a wealthy family and was viewed by the fans and his teammates as sort of a snob and momma's boy. He simply retired from the game at age 23 to coach baseball in Japan, then after his return to the US he became a successful businessman in California. He did say when he was older that he regretted not giving it all for baseball and wished he would have stayed with it.