Chapman was released by the Phillies the following season and had just one more stint in the majors, as a coach for Cincinnati in 1952.
I knew Chapman while I was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama; he was a local legend, the “Alabama Flash,” who had led the American League in stolen bases four times. He was happy to offer his rationale to anyone who would listen that his abuse of Robinson was no different than what he and many others had handed out to Joe DiMaggio (“Heck, we called him ‘Dago’ and ‘Wop’.”) and Hank Greenberg (“Kike,” was the most popular insult.)
Everyone did it, he insisted; the point was just to get an edge on your opponent. (Yeah, right.) It may be to some interest to baseball historians that Chapman, in his later years, was said by many who were involved in Birmingham baseball to have made a sharp turnaround–he stopped using racial slurs, became friendly with some of the legends of the Negro Leagues (most notably longtime Birmingham Black Barons player and manager Piper Davis), and even enjoyed being around young black kids and talking to them about baseball.