Post-career
After his career, Stovey became a police officer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Harry died at the age of 80 in New Bedford, and is interred at Oak Grove Cemetery.
The Nineteenth Century Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research named Stovey the Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend for 2011 — a 19th-century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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