Life After Baseball
After retiring from baseball, Mayo owned several restaurants in northern New Jersey. He later retired to Southern California, where he became very active as a fundraiser for the Loma Linda Children's Hospital.
Mayo died in 2006 at age 96 in Banning, California. He was the oldest living Detroit Tiger at the time of his death.
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