Hall of Fame posthumously honors Buck O'Neil
Published 7/25/2008 at SI.com - MLB
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Hall of Fame ceremonies will be held this weekend, when Goose Gossage, Bowie Kuhn, Walter O'Malley, Barney Dreyfuss, Billy Southworth and Dick Williams are inducted into the Hall. With such a diverse group of individuals entering the Hall, it's a good time to once again ask why Marvin Miller isn't there, too .Hall of Very Good: Hooray for Saturday!
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A lot of kids growing up get excited for the normal made up holidays like Valentine’s Day or Halloween. Me…I always got jazzed up about the day the Hall of Fame announcement was made. Sure, it doesn’t have some fancy name or some wing at the Hallmark store dedicated to it, but it was, for a couple hours in January…my Christmas. Well, TECHNICALLY, Christmas was Christmas…but you get the idea.Buck O'Neil becomes an immortal - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sometimes Buck O’Neil would walk toward the Field of Legends and stop. He would stare at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum’s statues of the greatest black ballplayers, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige and Oscar Charleston and Cool ...HOORAY FOR SATURDAY!
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