BTTT
"days of a second baseman working in the offseason selling auto parts are long gone."
I don't remember any second-basemen selling auto parts, but I do remember the pride of Pittsfield, Mass., the Orioles' star shortstop Mark Belanger, ran a shoe store in the off season. That was the late 1960s early 1970s. Sad to say in looking him up I found out that he passed away in 1998,