Homan played baseball outside of class for The Fresno Expositor on a company sponsored team alongside future MLB player and manager Frank Chance.
[11][12] Homan would also find himself called upon by virtue of his associations with politicians and merchants alike to continue in civic leadership.
[14][15] Homan would begin to reenter the political world with an appointment by Mayor A. E. Sunderland to study the matters of improving of travel and traffic through the city.
Leymel recently had lost a citywide vote on city takeover of public utilities and was seen as weak going into the election.
He ran on a pro-business, pro-recovery, lower private-owned utility rate platform and won with 62% of the vote over the incumbent.
[21][22] Homan's term however was dominated by the discontinuing of the electric trams of the Fresno Traction Company in favor of bus service.
[28] His post-mayoral civic career found Homan sitting as Chairman of the Fresno State College board of governors from 1941 to 1958 and earning an honorary Master's Degree in Public Service.
[29] Homan found himself continuing to be called upon in civic affairs as a city elder to work on a new city charter, the only living former mayor between 1950 and 1957, President of the Fresno County Historical Society, and Chairman of the corps advisory council for the Fresno Salvation Army.