Later Years
Flagstead was claimed off waivers by the Washington Senators in May 1929 but was released after playing in only 18 games. He was picked up by the Pittsburgh Pirates in July 1929. He played his last major league game for the Pirates on July 29, 1930.
After being released by the Pirates, Flagstead played in 1931 for the Portland Beavers and Seattle Indians in the Pacific Coast League.
After his professional career ended, Flagstead returned to his home in Olympia, Washington, where he put the local team in the Timber League championship playoffs for three consecutive years.
Flagstead has been inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame and the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame.
Flagstead died at his home in Olympia, Washington at age 46 in 1940.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
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