We all knew that Chase was through and that we would never see his like again. The modern ball players who are at sometimes compared to him aren't fit to hold his glove. I think he was the most beautiful thing in action that I have ever seen on a sport field, and the deep pity of it is that the world thinks of him as a hoodlum rather than as a man who was mentally ill."

In 1925, Chase ended up in Mexico. He was trying to organize a league in that country. This would never materialize. Sad to read in retrospect, it was reported quite seriously at the time: "Banished from organized baseball for alleged participation in the World Series scandal of 1919, Hal Chase, formerly first baseman for the Cincinnati Nationals, and now proprietor of a cafe in Agua Prieta, Mexico...is preparing to organize a National baseball league in Mexico on the invitation of the Mexico City government. Chase said that the plan, proposed by a high Mexican official, would make him a (Judge) Landis in Mexico, heading an organization to be known as the Mexican National Baseball League. He said he is working on organization plans; that the money has been raised and that the league will be in operation in several of the larger Mexican cities as soon as parks can be provided. "It won't be but a year or two now," Chase added, "when any baseball team, before annexing the title of world's champions, will have to beat our best team. The Mexicans are natural ball players and are developing a love for the game. I feel I will have an opportunity here in Mexico of placing baseball on a sound an honest foundation and demonstrate to baseball fans in the United States that I was the Dreyfuss and not the Benedict Arnold of organized baseball." Ban Johnson, who shielded Chase from controversy when the first baseman starred in his league, was a friend of the Mexican president. He prevailed upon the president to deport Chase in the "best interests" of Mexican baseball. Thus ended Chase's south of the border baseball experiment.