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==Post-baseball== Cravath returned to California, where he went into real estate and was elected magistrate judge ([[Justice of the Peace]]) in September 1927 in [[Laguna Beach, California]]; he died there at age 82. His nephew [[Jeff Cravath]] was head [[American football|football]] coach at the [[University of Southern California]] from 1942 to 1950. In a June 27, 2004 interview with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110216144206/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10774-2004Jun27?language=printer ''Washington Post''], 7-time ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' game show champion Tom Walsh, who set the record for wins on the program in January 2004 before [[Ken Jennings]] came along later that year and won 74 games in a row, said, "I feel like 'Cactus Gavvy' Cravath. Do you know who that is? Right. Nobody does. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along." In 1985, Cravath was also inducted by the [[San Diego Hall of Champions]] into the {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090103154712/http://www.sdhoc.com/awards/hall-of-fame/baseball/gavy-cravath/ Breitbard Hall of Fame]}} honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sdhoc.com/awards/hall-of-fame/baseball/gavy-cravath/ |title=San Diego Hall of Champions Β» Gavy Cravath |website=www.sdhoc.com |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103154712/http://www.sdhoc.com/awards/hall-of-fame/baseball/gavy-cravath/ |archive-date=3 January 2009 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
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