Personal
Reardon suffered two strokes late in his life, and died at age 86 in Long Beach, California. He was survived by his wife, Eugenia, an oil painter whose portrait of Nancy Reagan once sat in the White House.
Beans was friends with Mae West and she is said to have sent him a copy of a nude photograph every Christmas. He appeared in several of her movies.
He was notably the basis for the home plate umpire in Norman Rockwell's famous painting Bottom of the Sixth, flanked by umpires Larry Goetz and Lou Jorda. Reardon is largely identifiable because, despite the depicted game being in the National League, the umpire is using the outside chest protector.
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