 He later wrote for the "New York Evening Journal" and Hearst's "American" (later known as the "New York Journal American").He died June 19, 1945 in New York City and is buried in Glen Cemetery, Paxton, Illinois.In 1946 Mercer was named to the Honor Rolls of Baseball by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and was awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.