Post-playing Career and Retirement
Afterwards, he managed in the minor leagues for five seasons, retiring to Lincolnwood, Illinois in 1946. On January 26, 1955, Hartnett was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame along with Joe DiMaggio, Ted Lyons and Dazzy Vance. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Hartnett in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time. In 1999, he was named as a finalist to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
In his last job in the majors Hartnett worked as a coach and scout for the Kansas City Athletics for two years in the mid-1960s. Hartnett died of cirrhosis in Park Ridge, Illinois on his 72nd birthday in 1972, and is interred in All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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