Editing Red Ruffing (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Red Ruffing and his wife Pauline (cropped).jpg|thumb|220px|Ruffing, with his wife Pauline Mulholland, holding trophies in their house in [[Long Beach, California]] in 1939.]]
Ruffing married Pauline Mulholland, a native of [[Chicago]], at the end of the 1934 season. The couple settled in [[Long Beach, California]].<ref name=beer>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_LwhAAAAIBAJ&pg=5962,2377093&dq=red-ruffing+pauline&hl=en|title=Huggins' Advice and Beer Helped Red Ruffing Remain in Baseball: Yankee Pitching Star Was Ready to Resign After Early Losses|first=Judson|last=Bailey|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Reading Eagle|page=15|date=September 13, 1942|access-date=September 7, 2013|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107225045/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_LwhAAAAIBAJ&pg=5962%2C2377093&dq=red-ruffing+pauline&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> When he worked for the Indians in the 1950s, the Ruffing family relocated to [[Cleveland]]. The couple had a son, named Charles Jr.<ref name=sabr/>

Ruffing suffered a [[stroke]] in 1974, at the age of 68, which left him paralyzed on his left side. As a result, he used a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.<ref name=sabr/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MepBAAAAIBAJ&pg=3625,1010003&dq=red-ruffing+pauline&hl=en|title=Red Ruffing still a giant at heart despite confinement to wheel chair|agency=United Press International|newspaper=The Telegraph-Herald|location=Dubuque, Iowa|page=9|date=August 8, 1977|access-date=September 8, 2013|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107225020/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MepBAAAAIBAJ&pg=3625%2C1010003&dq=red-ruffing+pauline&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> This was Ruffing's second stroke, and he also suffered from kidney and heart problems.<ref name=reminisces/> He contracted [[skin cancer]], necessitating the partial amputation of one of his ears. He died on February 17, 1986, at [[Hillcrest Hospital]] in [[Mayfield Heights, Ohio]], of heart failure.<ref name=sabr/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB727E8E6B4DD8D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=February 20, 1986|page=2G|title=Former Yankees Great Ruffing Dead at 80|access-date=September 8, 2013|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224082912/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB727E8E6B4DD8D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}}{{subscription required|date=September 2013}}</ref>