During the June 13, 1966 episode of "To Tell The Truth", Brosnan appeared as himself; none of the panelists correctly picked him as the contestant. Brosnan died at the age of 84 while in hospice in Park Ridge, Illinois. At the time of his death he was recovering from a stroke when sepsis set in. His survivors include three children, Jamie Kruidenier of Champaign, Illinois, Tim Brosnan of Morton Grove, Illinois, and Kimberly Brosnan-Myers, of Philadelphia, as well as a brother and four grandchildren. Brosnan's first book, "The Long Season", was named by Sports Illustrated as the 19th best sports book of all time and credited the work as serving as a model for Jim Bouton's book "Ball Four", Jerry Kramer's book "Instant Replay", and many other first-person sports memoirs. ""The Long Season" not merely changed everything, it remains, decades later, the best of its kind." -- Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley  Brosnan was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2007.