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According to his mother, Ashburn planned on retiring from broadcasting at the end of the 1997 season.

He died of a heart attack on September 9, 1997, in New York City after broadcasting a Phillies-Mets game at Shea Stadium.

A large crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his coffin in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

He is interred in the Gladwyne Methodist Church Cemetery, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.