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Oopsie! New monument honors Buck 'O'Neal' in Kansas City
sports.yahoo.com - 7/29/2008
Oopsie! New monument honors Buck 'O'Neal' in Kansas City
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To put it nicely, it hasn't been a good year for baseball monument makers. First, a statue engraver neglects to include a key apostrophe in Mr. Cub's most famous quote on the new Ernie Banks statue outside the entrance to Wrigley Field. Now comes the news that someone in Kansas City misspelled Buck O'Neil's last name on a recently unveiled monument in the Forest Hill Cemetery where the ...

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The Wil Cordero Memorial Linkpunch, Tuesday, July 29th
Walkoff Walk — ... the concept of economics and would love to see the USA fall into a major depression, just so those fat cats get what's comin' to 'em. Squawking Baseball. Rinku and Dinesh have had some great celebrity run-ins while training in the USA, including having met 'the best pitcher in Major League'. No, not Charlie Sheen. They met Rendy (sic) Johnson! Million Dollar Arm Blog. Buck O'Neal? The copy editors in Kansas City must be on strike. Big League Stew. Goose Gossage hates hippies, hugging, holistic healing, and George ...

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