Retirement

Retirement from baseball is when a player (voluntarily or othwerise) stops playing professional baseball. Players have often come out of retirement to try again - some like Roger Clemens have done so multiple times. Others, like Jim Palmer, failed in their comeback bids. Hideo Nomo retired from Nippon Pro Baseball to exploit a loophole in the rules that allowed him to come to the USA.

Further Reading

• Thomas Boswell: "How Can You Tell the Dancer From the Dance", in How Life Imitates the World Series, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1982, pp. 248-253.