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Mizzo
posted 4/9/2008 from
thestartingfive.net
When you read this I want you to
let Justice’s words seep into your psyche. He speaks
so much truth here it’s stunning. We have forgotten about our Negro League past. Do we realize the importance of the rich history we are dismissing through simple ignorance? As I look over at a Buck O’Neil signed baseball I think to myself that we all should be upset he didn’t get into the Hall of Fame...
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From Publishers Weekly Posnanski, sports columnist for the
Kansas City Star , spent a year on the
road with the iconic Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil (1911 2006), recording the magnanimous 94-year-old's encounters with scores of fans and ...
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DaveKingman
posted 8/17/2008 from
www.dugoutcentral.com
I'm in complete agreement. Sadaharu Oh deserves to
be in the Hall. Same with Roger Maris and
Buck O'Neil.
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We couldn’t ask for anything more in a
post-holiday treat than an interview with KC Star sports
columnist (and blogger extraordinaire ) Joe Posnanski. If you’re not familiar with him because you haven’t seen him bloviating on TV, ...
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m_taylor13
posted 7/30/2008 from
seamheads.com
BUCK O’NEIL IN THE HALL … SORT OF
As I process these words on Saturday, July 26,
a statue of Buck O’Neil is being unveiled in Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame. My newspaper tells me it will be hard to miss as you enter the Hall, a six-foot bronze Buck, wearing suit and tie, smiling hello. When Buck was not voted into the Hall in 2006, a special tribute was ...
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popjocks
posted 10/25/2007 from
sports.yahoo.com
US Negro League standout Buck O'Neil will be
honored by a new US Baseball Hall of Fame
award, but officials said Wednesday they will not reconsider inducting him into the sporting shrine. Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and retired African-American star Joe Morgan were among those who announced creation of the Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award before the first game of the ...
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An item in the Metromix section of the
Chicago Tribune says that filmmaker Ken Burns is hoping
to add an another chapter to the Berlin Alexanderplatz of baseball documentaries. (Actually, Fassbinder's film is shorter!)
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From Publishers Weekly Posnanski, sports columnist for the
Kansas City Star , spent a year on the
road with the iconic Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil (1911 2006), recording the magnanimous 94-year-old's encounters with scores of fans and ...
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The unveiling this afternoon of a new life-sized
statue of John "Buck" O'Neil at the Baseball Hall
of Fame is no small deal. Like many people, I was infuriated that a special committee to elect Negro Leagues greats to the...
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When Pellom McDaniels and Greg Baker met privately
with a Kansas City Star reporter Friday, they explained
their bizarre, irresponsible and borderline unethical decision by playing up Baker’s “strategic” expertise.
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Willie receives coaching honor Willie Randolph will depart
the Mets' minicamp today and fly to Kansas City
to be honored as the National League Manager of the Year by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Randolph was frustrated by being beaten out for...
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I sat down with Joe Posnanski, the author
of a new book on Buck O'Neil, The Soul
of Baseball, recently to talk about all things Buck. (In turn, he interviewed me about all things Yankees at his new blog.) Here is our chat. Hope y'all enjoy.
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The Hardball Times
found this 4/9/2007 on
www.hardballtimes.com
A book review of Joe Posnanski's new book
about the one and only Buck O'Neil.
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Until spring of last year, I'd never heard
of Buck O'Neil. The Negro League baseball players whom
I could name had all played in the Major Leagues and been inducted into the Hall of Fame players such as Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron ...
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BOSTON -- Buck O'Neil may be gone, but
he's certainly not forgotten. > The acclaimed late Negro
League icon will be honored with a statue and an award in his honor, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday evening shortly before Game ...
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Associated PressBOSTON -- Buck O'Neil got his spot
in the Hall of Fame with a Lifetime Achievement
Award created in his memory. One of the game's most beloved ambassadors, O'Neil was posthumously honored Wednesday by the Hall before the World Series ...
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Hall to bestow Buck O'Neil award Lifetime achievement
award to be given in O'Neil's name, statue to
be unveiled By Barry Bloom / MLB.com Published: 10/24/2007 7:30 PM ET Printable Version BOSTON, MA. -- Buck O'Neil may be gone, but he's certainly not ...
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pepe frias
posted 6/21/2008 from
www.dugoutcentral.com
Thanks to Cap Anson and other bigots like
him MLB has to wait until 2008 for the
first "draft" of surviving Negro League players.
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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 ...
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KANSAS CITY -- The clouds floated away a
few minutes before the ceremony began. Sun shined on
Forest Hill Cemetery. "It's a beautiful day," said Bob Kendrick, director of marketing for the Negro Leagues Museum, "in recognition of a beautiful human ...
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- Trouble at 18th and Vine
- Posnanski Blogs!
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Bloggers: One More Dying Quail
- Cheating in moderation
- Yankee Frustration
- Consolation Prize For Buck
- Hall is lacking without O’Neil
- Gossage is Finally a HoFer but the Hall Still Refuses to Properly Honor Buck O'Neil
- MLB Network talkin’ Ken Burns ‘Baseball’
- The Soul of Baseball
We’ve Forgotten Our Negro League Past Part 1: ...