Death and Honors
McPhee died in 1943. He was cremated and his ashes were interred in the mausoleum at Cypress View Memorial Gardens in San Diego.
McPhee was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000, more than one hundred years after he played in his last Major League game. He is the only Hall of Famer to spend significant time in the American Association. He is one of three Baseball Hall of Famers, along with Johnny Bench and Barry Larkin, who played their entire career in Cincinnati. McPhee is also the only Hall of Famer who played on the 1882 pennant winning Cincinnati Red Stockings team.
Two years after his induction into the Hall of Fame, McPhee was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
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