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==Later life== After his 1953 retirement, Mize worked as a radio commentator, scout and a hitting coach for the [[History of the New York Giants (baseball)|New York]] / [[San Francisco Giants]] (1955β60).<ref name=SHT>{{cite news|title=Johnny Mize joins list of famed bat coaches|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19550607&id=xOYhAAAAIBAJ&pg=6157,1372160|access-date=January 31, 2014|newspaper=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]|date=June 7, 1955}}</ref> He coached the [[History of the Oakland Athletics#Kansas City (1955β1967)|Kansas City Athletics]] in 1961. In the 1970s, Mize made his home in [[St. Augustine, Florida]], working for a development by the Deltona Corporation called St. Augustine Shores. A picture of his house is included in [[David Nolan (American author)|David Nolan]]'s book ''The Houses of St. Augustine''. He was chosen by the [[Veterans Committee]] of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. He had appeared on the regular Hall of Fame ballot in the 1960s and 1970s, where his highest vote percentage had been 43% in 1971.<ref name=BR/> Mize spent the last few years of his life at his home in Demorest, Georgia. He underwent heart surgery in 1982 but returned to good health. He died in his sleep of cardiac arrest in 1993.<ref name=NYT/>
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