After leaving the White Sox at the close of the 1945 season, he joined Bill Veeck's ownership syndicate and became a vice president and minority stockholder with the Cleveland Indians from 1946 until his death in 1948.

In the chapter "Harry's Diary," Veeck quotes from Grabiner's document and writes, "Beyond any doubt, the White Sox front office had more than some inkling of what was going on from the very first game of the 1919 World Series.

[2] After the Black Sox affair, Grabiner, who was Jewish, was attacked in print by The Dearborn Independent, owned by industrialist Henry Ford, in anti-Semitic articles that blamed the Jews for both the scandal and the cover-up.

[3] Born in Chicago on December 26, 1890, Grabiner began his career with the White Sox at age 14; some accounts list his first job as a peanut vendor at South Side Park, others as a ticket seller and usher.

Suffering from a condition that has been variously described as a stroke, cerebral hemorrhage or brain tumor, he lapsed into a coma and never witnessed the Tribe's AL playoff win over the Boston Red Sox or its six-game victory in the 1948 World Series.