Aftermath
After being banned from playing baseball Cicotte returned to Livonia, Michigan where he managed a service station, served as a Game Warden in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, then went to work for Ford Motor Company where he retired in 1944. Eddie lived to be 84 years old and until his death at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, May 5, 1969, he was a strawberry farmer on a 5½-acre farm near Farmington.
In the 1988 film Eight Men Out, about the Black Sox scandal, Cicotte is portrayed by actor David Strathairn.
He was portrayed by actor Steve Eastin in the 1989 film Field of Dreams.
Cicotte's grandnephew Al Cicotte (1929–1982) would later pitch in the major leagues, compiling a lifetime 10-13 record with six different teams, 1957-1962.
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