After Baseball
After leaving baseball, Chapman became an inspector for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984, and to the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1999 he was named to the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame. In 2006, the Tiburon Town Council voted to commission a statue of Chapman to be installed at the Tiburon ferry landing.
Chapman died at an assisted-living residence in Kentfield, California at the age of 90, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years.
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