Later Years
Hod Lisenbee was manager and half-owner of the Clarksville Colts club from 1946 to 1948. During the 1948 season, he bought the remaining half of the team, but the Colts continued to have problems both in attracting paying customers with their playing abilities on the ball field. He lost money on the Colts and sold the team.
Lisenbee lived in his hometown of Clarksville from the fall of 1945, until his death in 1987. His final years were spent farming on his 800-acre (3.2 km2) farm near Clarksville. He was elected to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1971. He died at age 89 on November 14, 1987, in Clarksville and is buried at the Liberty Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
In 1998, the Clarksville City Council renamed a portion of Dover Road (Highway 79) near the Dover Crossing interception as Hod Lisenbee memorial highway. The sign sits near the 800-acre (3.2 km2) plot of land that Lisenbee farmed for his last years of life. Lisenbee raised cattle and sold them for breeding purposes.
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