On August 20, 1883, after a game between the Louisville Eclipse and the Alleghenys‚ Creamer and fellow players Billy Taylor and Mike Mansell were each fined $100 and suspended indefinitely for drunkenness.
In 1884, the Alleghenys finished with a 30-78-2 record and went through five managers. Creamer was the fourth of these managers, serving from August 6 to August 16 and losing all eight games he managed.
Creamer was signed by the Baltimore Orioles before the 1885 season, but in March, newspaper reports said that he was very sick with tuberculosis and not expected to play baseball again. Players from the Chiacgo White Stockings took up a collection for Creamer and gave him $65. A benefit for him was scheduled for May 1 at the Academy of Music in Pittsburgh. A July 1885 newspaper article referred to a benefit that raised $200 for Creamer.

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