Post-playing Career
After his playing career, Sisler reunited with Rickey as a special assignment scout and front-office aide with the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. Sisler's sons Dick and Dave were also major league players in the 1950s. Sisler was a Dodgers scout in 1950 when his son Dick hit a game-winning home run against Brooklyn to clinch the pennant for the Phillies and eliminate the second-place Dodgers. When asked after the pennant winning game how he felt when his son beat his current team, the Dodgers, George replied, "I felt awful and terrific at the same time."
Another son, George Jr., served as a minor league executive and as the president of the International League.
Sisler died in Richmond Heights, Missouri, in 1973, while still employed as a scout for the Pirates.
In October 2004, Ichiro Suzuki broke Sisler's 84 years old hit record, collecting his 258th hit off of former Texas Rangers pitcher Ryan Drese. Sisler's daughter Frances Sisler Drochelman and other of his family members were in attendance when the record was broken.
While in St. Louis for the 2009 All-Star game, Ichiro Suzuki visited Sisler's grave site.
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