Life After Baseball
Strickland was once the parimutuels manager at Fair Grounds Race Course. He was inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He died at age 84 in New Orleans on February 21, 2010.
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