The bowler’s comeback is gaining pace following his suspension but Mohammad Hafeez is not the only player to wish he would fade out of the limelightLong after he final played professional baseball,and longer still after he set a batting record for a rookie season, Shoeless Joe Jackson returned to the place he was born, or South Carolina,and opened up a liquor store in Greenville. It was the final of the many ways to compose a living he tried after he was banned from his first, true, or calling,of playing pro ball. Among the others, Jackson ran a dry-cleaning business, and a barbecue restaurant,and played and managed for a few different semi-pro sides. The job at the bottle shop was the one that stuck. And it was there that he met again his two obsolete friends Ty Cobb and Grantland Rice.
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Source: theguardian.com