Later Life
After his coaching career ended, Austin retired and moved to Laguna Beach, California, and served as the town's mayor during the 1940s.
Austin was one of the ballplayers who told his story in Lawrence Ritter's classic 1965 book, The Glory of Their Times, from which much of the information in this article came.
Austin is also immortalized in the Charles M. Conlon photo as the third baseman trying to avoid Ty Cobb's spikes on a stolen base. Of the play, Austin said, "That's Cobb sliding into third and the other guy is me."
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