[2][3] He left Wesleyan in June 1919 to play professional baseball for the Wichita, Kansas team in the Western League.
[4] After spending the summer playing baseball in Wichita, Liston returned to Wesleyan as the head football coach in the fall of 1919.
[9] After resigning from Wesleyan, Liston announced he was through with the coaching profession and that it was his intention to move to Kansas to work on the farm of his father-in-law.
[13] Liston was also the founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics,[14] organized the NAIA college basketball tournament, and a close friend of James Naismith.
A dedicated administrator, Liston envisioned a small college, national tournament and organized the NAIB (now known as the NAIA).