Buck O'Neil was a player and manager
in the Negro Leagues, a legendary baseball scout, the first
African American coach in the Major Leagues, the
driving force behind the
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and a ringing voice for baseball for more than 70
years.
Though he shamefully was not inducted into Baseball's
Hall of Fame last July, he spoke at the ceremony and led the Hall
of Famers and more than 20,000 people in song. He died 10 weeks later, a
month shy of his 95th birthday.
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