Post-baseball Career
Though the Red Caps had released him as a player, he was still under contract, so they had him work in various other capacities, such as a ticket-taker and groundskeeper. Eventually, team owner Nicholas Apollonio agreed to pay Borden approximately three-quarters of the two remaining years of his contract, and released him from the team. Borden reportedly found work stitching baseballs in Philadelphia. Little is known of Borden's life after baseball, and it has been alleged that he died in May 1889 during the Johnstown Flood, the same disaster that had stranded the entire Louisville Colonels team. Official records show that he died in Yeadon, Pennsylvania at the age of 75, and is interred at Oaklands Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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