Post-playing Career
After his baseball career, Bordagaray owned restaurants and clubs in St. Louis and Kansas City and developed land as cemeteries in the Midwestern United States. He sold graveyard plots in Coalinga, California. He moved to Ventura, California in 1961, where he was supervisor of youth sports and recreation programs in the Ventura Recreation Department.
Bordagaray was named to the Fresno County and Ventura County Sports Halls of Fame, as well as the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame. Proud of his publicity, he kept newspaper clippings in a scrapbook that weighs 15 pounds (6.8 kg).
Bordagaray died in a nursing home in Ventura at the age of 90. He was survived by his wife of 52 years, Victoria, two sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He is interred at Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Coalinga.
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