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HiHiYikas
October 7th, 2006, 06:09 PM
Baseball lost of of its greatest Ambassadors on Friday, and it really breaks my heart.

John "Buck" O'Neil - an excellent player, manager, coach, and scout. Winner of 5 pennants and 2 Negro Leagues World Series as skipper of the Kansas City Monarchs.

Ken Burns said of O'Neil:

"He's a great gift from baseball to the rest of the nation, he is the keeper of some very important memories about the negro leagues, and he has a quality of being that is as advanced and as generous and as inspiring as that of an individual I've had the great fortune to interview and get to know. He is wise, funny, self-deprecating, and absolutely sure of what he wants from life. He is my hero, my friend, my mentor. He is like Abraham Lincoln and Jackie Robinson, what human progress is all about."

Rest in Peace, Buck.
Hansel
October 7th, 2006, 06:14 PM
RIP :(
HIU 93
October 9th, 2006, 12:50 PM
Another soldier in God's army...
goasu984Life
October 9th, 2006, 12:52 PM
He needs to go into the Hall of Fame. He was only one vote short, and I think it would be an injustice to not have him in. It was a shame that he could not have seen it himself, but it definitely needs to be done posthumously.
Ivytalk
October 9th, 2006, 12:58 PM
He needs to go into the Hall of Fame. He was only one vote short, and I think it would be an injustice to not have him in. It was a shame that he could not have seen it himself, but it definitely needs to be done posthumously.

Agreed 100%. He was a class act, and he was the best live participant in Burns's Baseball IMHO.
Go...gate
October 9th, 2006, 01:07 PM
It is a travesty that he never was inducted into the Hall of Fame. May he rest in peace.
griz37
October 9th, 2006, 01:42 PM
He needs to go into the Hall of Fame. He was only one vote short, and I think it would be an injustice to not have him in. It was a shame that he could not have seen it himself, but it definitely needs to be done posthumously.

Wasn't this year his last chance? RIP Buck.
goasu984Life
October 9th, 2006, 02:21 PM
It was probably the last time he would appear on the ballot, but I'm sure that there can be ways to get him in. Write his name in for God's sake. I wish they would tell us who didn't vote him in last year. they should be shot.
Maverick
October 9th, 2006, 06:41 PM
That person you say should be shot could probably die too fast. I believe that a long slow and extremely painful death would be much more appropriate. Something like the ancient Mongols would do would be appropriate. They would wrap someone in rug and then have the entire horde of horses, wagons, and people on foot pass over them. This modern version would permit everyone who "knows" that Buck belongs in Cooperstown for what he did for the game of baseball to walk across him.