Swartzel returned the Blues for the 1890 and 1891 seasons, then split the 1892 season with the Rochester Flour Cities of the Eastern League and the Minneapolis Minnies of the Western league. This was his last season, on record, of his professional baseball career, although he was noted to have been released by the Grand Rapids Rustlers of the Western League in May 1896. He died on January 3, 1940, in Los Angeles, California, US, and is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
