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Graney was also a Canadian, and after retiring from playing he became a play-by-play broadcaster for the team, thus being the first former major league player to become a broadcaster in the U.S.

He died at age 91 in Louisiana, Missouri. In the 1980s, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame instituted the Jack Graney Award, presented periodically to journalists deemed to have made notable contributions to promoting baseball in Canada.