Buck O’Neil, a batting champion in the Negro Leagues before becoming the first black to serve as a major league coach, has died. He was 94. The beloved national figure as the unofficial goodwill spokesman for the Negro Leagues died Friday night in a Kansas City hospital, eight months after he fell one vote short of the Hall of Fame.
Posted: October 7th, 2006.
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