Induct Buck O'Neil to the Hall of Fame

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Induct Buck Petition - Add Your Name Today

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We, the undersigned, urge the Board of Directors of Baseball's Hall of Fame to take immediate action to right the wrong committed by its Negro Leagues panel members and take immediate action to induct Buck O'Neil on July 30, 2006.

180 Comments:

  • Charles Margulis
    Oakland, CA

    By Blogger epurity, at 10:17 PM  

  • Amy Sturmer
    Montville, NJ

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:38 PM  

  • Anyone who had the qualifications that Mr. O'Neil had should definitely be in the hall. I hope they reconsider.
    Clara Zukrow
    Brown Deer, Wi.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:33 AM  

  • Joel Francis
    Kansas City, Mo.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:40 AM  

  • Steve Murray
    Germantown, MD

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:42 AM  

  • Mike Moore
    Ottawa, ON

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:03 AM  

  • Matt Davis
    New York, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:07 AM  

  • This guy has the resume, put him in the Hall.

    Put Jim Ed Rice in too!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:08 AM  

  • Chad Redmon
    Dallas, Texas.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:10 AM  

  • Al Rizo
    Houston, TX

    Put Buck IN!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:15 AM  

  • Kanon Cozad
    Kansas City, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:16 AM  

  • Kanon Cozad
    Kansas City, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:17 AM  

  • His record as player and manager is enough, but add in the work he has done to get the Negro League and its members the recognition they deserve, he should have been a slam dunk...

    C. Robert Stevens
    Austin TX

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:17 AM  

  • Joe Cohen
    Brooklyn, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:21 AM  

  • Kesavan Menon
    Lawrenceville, NJ

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:22 AM  

  • Steve Sargent
    Rochester, NH

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:28 AM  

  • pj johnson
    oakland, ca

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:31 AM  

  • Joshua Stamell
    Brooklyn, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:41 AM  

  • Christian Correa
    South Orange, NJ

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:41 AM  

  • There's no justification for voting for Effa Manley and against Buck O'Neil. Put them both in the Hall.

    Mark Dugan
    Overland Park, KS

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:53 AM  

  • Barry Jarvis
    Akron, OH

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:00 AM  

  • Why on earth has this man not been inducted already? Don't wait for him to die -- think of what he's been through and what an icon he is and do the right thing NOW!!!!!

    Sally Schwartz
    Chicago, IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:25 AM  

  • Buck has brought the Negro Leagues to the attention of countless fans, young and old, and many of the world's greatest players owe their notoriety largely to Buck.

    That he is classy and a great storyteller is not enough. That he wrote a wonderful book about the history of the negro leagues and was a central contributor to Ken Burns' Baseball is not enough. That he was a slick-fielding, okay-hitting first baseman and also the first black coach in the majors is perhaps not enough. All of these things together however, along with his inimitable ambassadorship, mean that he soars high above the standards for overall contributions to the game.

    Daniel Lewis
    Chicago, IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:33 AM  

  • Is anyone else struck by the irony that the most appropriate candidate to give the induction speech for most of the inductees...is Buck O'Neil himself?! I applaud the selection committee and all their hard work, but I also believe there is room in the process for more than just personal statistics. I can't help but think that Mr. O'Neil is a victim of playing so many roles in his career (player, coach, manager, scout, and-most importantly-ambassador and champion of the Negro Leagues)that the cumulative achievement cannot be easily measured in statistical terms (nor should it).

    I hope that Mr. O'Neil's candidacy can be revisited by the Hall of Fame's Veteran's Committee. Soon.

    Bill Busch
    Kansas City, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:36 AM  

  • Heather Whitehead
    Oakland, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:37 AM  

  • Kerri Berney
    Los Angeles, CA

    By Blogger harx1, at 10:42 AM  

  • Michael Porcaro
    Metuchen, NJ

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:42 AM  

  • Joan Walsh
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:47 AM  

  • Isabelle Reining
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:53 AM  

  • Jason L. Gohlke
    Oakland, CA

    By Blogger Jason, at 10:55 AM  

  • Sheila Howard
    Seattle, WA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:04 AM  

  • Alex Nosevich
    Northborough, MA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:10 AM  

  • Adam Swift
    Beverly, MA

    By Blogger endangered coffee, at 11:16 AM  

  • David Lantz
    Madison, WI

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:33 AM  

  • Brian Caskey
    Asheville, NC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:38 AM  

  • Lionel Beasley
    Burlington, VT

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:40 AM  

  • Andrew Lynn
    Syracuse, NY

    Buck was a great player and manager, but it's more than that - he's done an incredible amount of service to the game and its history. I don't see it as "honoring" O'Neil with a Hall of Fame induction, I see it as the Hall of Fame being dishonored by his absence.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:42 AM  

  • Tim Schreiber
    Champaign IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:44 AM  

  • Amen.

    Tod Schmidt
    Charlotte, NC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:46 AM  

  • Scott Hillier
    Austin, TX

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:00 PM  

  • Please put Mr. O'Neil in the Hall of Fame. He was a great player and manager, and he still is a great ambassador for the game.

    Jeff Kirchmeier
    Kew Gardens, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:02 PM  

  • Mr. Margulis, thanks for putting this together. Buck O'Neil deserves to be in the Hall, and I hope that at least we can honor him in some small way here on the Internet.
    Louis Arighi
    Urbana, IL

    By Blogger biglou, at 12:06 PM  

  • Andrew Beaton, Toronto ON

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:09 PM  

  • Aaron Langton
    Denver, CO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:12 PM  

  • There are far lesser players in the Hall of Fame. The exclusion of African Americans in major league baseball diminished any achievements white and black players as result of not playing with each other. Segregation reduces us all.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:41 PM  

  • Christopher Ross
    Cornwall, VT

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:47 PM  

  • Rebecca Spector
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:54 PM  

  • first off, i think that there are matters of if-you-love-your-children-do-something-now type moral urgency in the world, and membership in the baseball hall of fame is not one of them.

    that said, i would like to see buck o'neil in the hall of fame.

    for those who don't know baseball or buck o'neil, his story is one that urges the consideration of issues such as social justice, kindness, spirituality, civil rights, wisdom, and many of the other themes that are important to people who care not necessary about baseball but about the world.

    in that vein, you can catch a short buck o'neil video at: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/shadowball/video.html. (you'll have to go down to the "buck o'neil" links.)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:55 PM  

  • Will Rostov
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:18 PM  

  • Diane Huntzicker
    New York, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:32 PM  

  • Marc Fuller
    Portland, OR

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:43 PM  

  • Induct Buck!

    Forrest Monroy
    Los Gatos, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:55 PM  

  • Eric Gollihar
    Richardson, TX

    By Blogger scrubbyfrog, at 2:04 PM  

  • Markus Kamp
    Bonney Lake WA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:27 PM  

  • Mary McFadden
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:43 PM  

  • Tim Mooney
    Saint Louis, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:45 PM  

  • Bart Federici
    Willow Springs, IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:58 PM  

  • Jared Miller
    Washington, DC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:26 PM  

  • Jeff Engel
    Tualatin OR

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:37 PM  

  • Benoit Legault
    Montreal,Qc,Canada.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:46 PM  

  • Ron Achelpohl
    Kansas City, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:49 PM  

  • Buck O'Neil has done as much to popularize American baseball as anybody and MLB has a duty to reward him for his efforts as a player, as a developer of Hall-of-Fame talent, and as an ambassador of the game.

    Steven W. Flanders
    Palo Alto, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:50 PM  

  • Peter Mosca
    Vancouver, Canada

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:25 PM  

  • Brian Ipsen
    Joplin, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:55 PM  

  • Maybe Buck O'Neill wasn't a hall of fame player, or manager, or scout, or historian. But in each of his varied roles he was very good. The sum of his contributions to the game are so great, he deserves more than just induction. Maybe a Negro Leagues or some other section named after him. A statue of him. Something special.

    Do the right thing!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:07 PM  

  • Tom Camerlinck
    Alexandria, VA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:12 PM  

  • I called Mr. O'Neil the day he did not get voted in. I left him a message on his answering machine expressing my sadness on his hall snub. This man, with so much class, called me back to thank me for the kind words. With all that was going on that day, he did not have to do that, but he knows how much his fans love him. I think if he is not elected into the hall for his contributions to baseball, then what is the hall for?

    Matthew Klontz
    Greenville, OH

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:45 PM  

  • Michael Markman
    Kirkland, WA

    Just saw Buck's interview with Keith Olbermann. Awesomely gracious. He's earned it.

    By Blogger Michael Markman, at 8:46 PM  

  • Russ Haynes
    Evanston, IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:48 PM  

  • Jeremy Pollock
    San Francisco, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:31 PM  

  • If MLB and the Hall can alter eligibilty rules to keep players out, surely they can do the same to get Mr. O'Neil in - preferably while we're still blessed to have him with us. Buck's induction is long overdue already.

    Jeff Euston
    Kansas

    By Blogger Jeff, at 12:19 AM  

  • If Negro League owners can qualify for the Hall of Fame, I think Buck O'Neil should, too. If you add his efforts to preserve the history of the Negro Leagues are added to his on-field efforts, he's as qualified as anyone.

    Craig Orsinger
    Federal Way, WA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:27 AM  

  • I thought O'Niel in the Hall of Fame would be a no-brainer. Wrong.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:12 AM  

  • Klint Cowan
    Oklahoma City, OK

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:10 AM  

  • It's absolutely mind numbing to think the Buck O'Neil is not in the Hall of Fame. Baseball should be ashamed. It's time to fix a great wrong and put Buck in.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:35 AM  

  • Induct Buck!!!

    Tony Kahan
    Glenview, Illinois

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:54 AM  

  • Buffalo, NY

    Without O'Neil, we might not even be having this conversation today.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:18 AM  

  • Negro baseball players would not receive anywhere near the recognition they are receiving without Buck O'Neil's selfless dedication to the league and musuem. He is the leagues MVP. Don't overlook this most deserving indiviudual.

    Jack Lipscomb
    Greenwood, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:38 AM  

  • Russell Pietz
    Madison, WI

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:44 AM  

  • I'm shocked and disappointed by Buck's exclusion. One of the invectives directed against Buck's election was that the nation would not have known who Buck was had he not been a talking head in the Ken Burns documentary. The initial exposure given to Negro League stars resulted from the publication, more than thirty years ago, of "Only The Ball Was White." Had the media not given that book national attention, greats like Gibson, Wells, Dihigo, et al. would have continued to be ignored. What Burns did was to allow us the pleasure of a primary source experience with one of the most important men ever involved in the Negro Leagues as a player, manager and oral historian. Banks, Mays, Jackie and Frank Robinson never hit as high .353 in a season, as did Buck. And Buck's .288 lifetime average over 19 seasons is greater than HOF first basemen McCovey, Murray and Perez. Please allow Buck (and American history) to take a victory lap across Cooperstown on July 30, 2006 by making him an inductee.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:00 AM  

  • I'm shocked and disappointed by Buck's exclusion. One of the invectives I read directed against Buck's election was that the nation would not have known who Buck was had he not been a talking head in the Ken Burns documentary. The initial exposure given to Negro League stars resulted from the publication, more than thirty years ago, of "Only The Ball Was White." Had the media not given that book national attention, greats like Gibson, Wells, Dihigo, et al. would continued to be ignored. What Burns did for us all was to allow us the pleasure of a primary source meeting with one of the most important men ever involved in the Negro Leagues as a player, manager and oral historian. Banks, Mays, Jackie and Frank Robinson never hit as high .353 in a season, as did Buck. And Buck's .288 lifetime average over 19 seasons is greater than HOF first basemen McCovey, Murray and Perez. Please allow Buck (and American history) to take a victory lap across Cooperstown on July 30, 2006 by making him an inductee.

    Mark Blickley
    New York City

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:05 AM  

  • Buck O'Neil belongs in the Hall. He was more than just a good player. He is the Negro Leagues. What a wonderful sight that would have been in Cooperstown this year. How sad for baseball.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:19 AM  

  • Julie Hudson
    Washington, DC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:22 AM  

  • Pat Keyes
    Washington, DC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:18 AM  

  • Robyn Simmons
    Arlington, VA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:33 AM  

  • Add my name to this petition. James Gallahue. Frankfort, Ky

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:44 AM  

  • Induct Buck O'Neill to the Hall of Fame.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:58 AM  

  • Give the man the credit he so rightly deserves.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:04 AM  

  • Induct Buck O'Neill to the Hall of Fame.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:23 AM  

  • Jason Bahr
    Starkville, MS

    I met Buck O'Neil last summer in an airport and was fortunate enough to have a Monarchs cap with me for him to sign. He is a gentle man, and was a great success as a player and manager. The Negro League Museum is marvelous. What was wrong with that panel??

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:39 AM  

  • Tim Walker
    Chicago, IL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:51 AM  

  • Miyo Sakashita
    Berkeley, CA

    By Blogger Miyoko, at 9:10 AM  

  • The Flash said...Unfortunately most humans have not connected with logic since the beginning of time. Buck is indeed a Hall of Famer for all logical thinkers.

    Tom Adler
    Tucson, AZ

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:18 AM  

  • Jonathan D'Amore
    Chapel Hill, NC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:37 AM  

  • Jay Schwartz

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:45 AM  

  • I am outraged that Buck was not inducted. Nobody deserves it more.

    1. As a player and manager.
    2. As the real leader of the movement for the Negro Baseball Museum.
    3. As the most effective spoksman baseball has had in the last 20 years.
    4. As a great human being.

    Bob Wise
    Portland, Oregon

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:46 AM  

  • Mark Sieffert
    Baltimore, MD

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:50 AM  

  • If not for Buck, and I'm not even talking about his work as a player, manager, scout and coach, there would have not have been a 'face' for the Negro Leagues that would have set up this panel to vote on other deserving Negro Leaguers. This was a no brainer and somehow academia screwed it up. For those of us who toiled as players and have to injuries to show for it, we ask that this very select profession remains as credible as possible, and Buck's exclusion, does not reflect what he has done for Negro Leagues Baseball, baseball in general and the history of this great game. It should not have been that difficult. Sincerely, Billy Sample

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:05 AM  

  • Tom Murphy
    Las Cruces, NM

    Buck O'Neil is a national treasure. The least that Baseball could do is to honor him.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:15 AM  

  • Chris Hodapp
    Minneapolis, MN

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:16 AM  

  • Mike Miliard
    Boston, MA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:46 AM  

  • Elect him twice.

    Dan Pepper
    Kalamazoo, MI

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:56 AM  

  • It's impossible to imagine what the voting committee was thinking when it chose to pass over Buck O'Neil. He is the living history of the game, one of its outstanding spokesmen, and he could HIT. Induct Buck!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:03 AM  

  • WHAT A DUMB MISTAKE. THEY BOTH SHOULD BE IN THE HALL.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:04 AM  

  • Adam Robinson
    St. Paul, MN

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:20 AM  

  • Becky Tarbotton
    Berkeley, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:25 AM  

  • David J. Prohaska
    Middleton, WI

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:57 AM  

  • Buck O'Neil's many accomplishments in all aspects of the game, coupled with his personal integrity and magnestism, is what elevates baseball from a mere "game" to a "national past time." How can he not be Hall of Fame material? That special committee was not special enough to recognize greatness walking among us.

    Theresa Osredker
    Leawood, Kansas

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:06 PM  

  • Kelly B. Tulsa

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:07 PM  

  • Buck O'Neil's not being in the Hall is simply unconscionable. Even more so is the fact that the MLB committee will have him speak at the Cooperstown ceremony for those who were inducted. What was that board thinking?! Only Mr. O'Neil's marvelous grace and generosity can take the sting out of having just one more door closed in his face.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:28 PM  

  • Hank Scott

    Kansas City, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:29 PM  

  • Nicholas Corcoran
    Buffalo, NY

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:48 PM  

  • This is way overdue! And send Minnie with him

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:56 PM  

  • David Coleman
    Oakland, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:13 PM  

  • The Hall of Fame will lose a lot of credibility with me if they don't put Buck in while he's still alive.
    Sean O'Daniels
    Independence, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:34 PM  

  • Burr Heneman
    Bolinas, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:46 PM  

  • Nancy Powers
    St. Louis, MO.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:31 PM  

  • Mr. O'Neil belongs in the Hall of Fame as well as Minnie Minoso.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:17 PM  

  • Induct Buck

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:45 PM  

  • Eleanor Margulis
    Alexandria, VA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:45 PM  

  • Buck O'Neil is the ambassador for the Negro Leagues, even beyond his already worthwhile acheivements he should be in the Hall of Fame just for that alone. This is a travesty of a mockery of a sham.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:34 PM  

  • Dan Boyd
    Wilmington, De

    By Blogger Dan Boyd, at 11:53 PM  

  • This committee has destroyed it's credibility. Trying to justify this action would only add insult to injury. The Hall needs to save it's reputation by putting Buck O'Neil in now!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:25 AM  

  • This committee has destroyed it's credibility. Any attempt at justification would add insult to injury. The Hall needs to save it's reputation by dumping this committee and admitting Buck O'Neil NOW!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:29 AM  

  • Joshua Drown
    West Palm Beach, FL

    Buck is an amazing ambassador for baseball, the beautiful game that it is. My hope for him is that he could be honored bt the Hall, before he leaves us.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:07 AM  

  • Mike Green
    Albany, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:40 PM  

  • Paul Paz y Mino
    Oakland, CA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:28 PM  

  • Buck O'Neil deserves not just one induction, but three: one as a player, one as a coach/scout, and one as a historian for his work with the Negro League Museum.

    Kyle Kensing
    Ridgecrest, California

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:56 PM  

  • Paul Nathanson
    Burke, VA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:14 AM  

  • John Haynes
    Charleston, WV

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:36 AM  

  • It is a bonehead decision not to enshrine Buck O'Neill in the Hall of Fame. Any effort to justify that decision is pure pedantry. The point is to honor those who have made special contributions to the game, and even if Buck's numbers do not qualify him by themselves-and they probably do-his multifaceted excellence and contributions are among the most impressive in the entire history of the sport. Only the narrowest tunnel vision by the committee could have led them to make such an idiotic decision.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:55 AM  

  • Ted Curry
    Brooklyn New York

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:59 AM  

  • steve pond
    raleigh, nc

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:57 AM  

  • Deserves recognition

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:52 AM  

  • Buck belongs

    Bill Baxter
    Kansas City, MO.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:23 PM  

  • sweintrop
    St. Louis, MO

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:02 AM  

  • The man is certainly popular. But he didn't have the numbers. He is also one hell of a self promoter, to be frank the self promotion aggrivates me. But this is the Baseball Hall of Fame not a popularity contest. Leave it as is.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:55 AM  

  • Thom Cosgrove
    Baton Rouge, LA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:23 AM  

  • Buck's accomplishments on the field should be enough to induct him, without doubt, into the HOF. What Buck has done for the Negro Leagues since his playing days make it a no-brainer. If asked to name a Negro League player, the first name I think of is Buck O'Neil.

    Sal Bianco
    Palm Harbor, FL

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:28 AM  

  • Mr. O'Niel has brought such a grace and respect to the game of baseball that is rarely seen in our time. The HOF has omitted a valuable chapter in the history of the game.

    Megan Price
    Seoul, South Korea

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:35 PM  

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  • Matthew Liblanc

    Hopedale, MA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:08 AM  

  • Mr. O'Neil was a great man on and off the field. A total class act. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. A Hall of Fame without Buck isn't a Hall of Fame at all.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:23 PM  

  • I think it is past time to induct this great man into the BaseBall Hall of Fame.
    This is a honor that is long past due. Buck is a great ball player and a great American. He deserves to be honored while he is still alive, it would be a grave injustice if he died before he was inducted.
    In light of the times we need heros to be put in spotlight. He is a truely great baseball player.Everyone needs to know what he did as a person and a player.
    The kids of America need to know you can be a great athelete and a honest person also.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:11 PM  

  • It's a disgrace that this has to be done on his behalf. Baseball, wake up.

    Tony Edwards
    Orangeburg, SC

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:13 PM  

  • I think it is way overdue for Buck to be in as a Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a player for his contributions to african american players alone he has been a wonderful ambassador.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:09 AM  

  • Buck O'Neil should have been automatically added to the other Baseball Hall of Fame. He has already been inducted into the Hall of Fame in the Negro League Baseball Museum.

    Mr. O'Neil was a great baseball player in the Negro leagues, plus he was the first black coach in the white major leagues and now they will not induct him in to this other hall of fame. Who are these people with no brains about what a hall of famer's are.

    Mr. O’Neil was named to the East-West All-Star Classic in 1942, 1943 and 1949. He led the league in 1947 with a batting average of .358. Mr. O’Neil had a career batting average of .288 with four seasons over .300 plus average. Buck also had the honor of managing the West squad in 1950, 1953, 1954 and 1955. The West was victorious in all four contests. Buck's career also included playing for the 1946 Satchel Paige All-Stars, who toured the nation against Bob Feller's All-Stars in a 14 game series.

    O'Neil succeeded Frank Duncan, in 1948, as manager of the Kansas City Monarchs. He continued to manage the Monarchs until 1955. Buck guided the Monarchs to league titles in 1948, 1950, 1951 and 1953. In 1956, O'Neil was hired by the Chicago Cubs as a scout.

    Buck O'Neil is a great person and is number one in my Hall of Fame of Great Americans.

    Paul Byrne
    Seattle, WA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:56 AM  

  • Shaun P. Montana
    Medway, MA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:38 AM  

  • Ryan Lester
    Zimmerman, MN

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:52 AM  

  • Ryan Lester
    Zimmeman, MN

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:58 AM  

  • We must honor these men and induct them into The Hall of Fame. What a shame and a disgrace it would be to induct a Barry Bonds into the Hall and not these men.

    NDiaz
    Tampa,Fl

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:03 PM  

  • Mr. O'neill represents everything good about the game. He deserves to be in the hall of fame.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:38 PM  

  • The fact that quite possibly the greatest ambassador that baseball will ever have, and who certaintly is the driving force behind most of us knowing what we do about the negro leagues, is not in the Hall is an absolute joke. For Bud Selig not to have stepped up and demanded that the Hall put him in only adds to every other bonehead thing that man has done that has hurt baseball. What a shame.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:23 AM  

  • Buck was a great player and an even greater baseball icon and ambassador of what is great with Baseball. Hearing him speak was one of my most memorable moments, truly inspirational.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:11 AM  

  • Honor, integrity, and hardwork should be rewarded, not ignored. Mr. O'neill represents everything good about the game. He deserves to be in the hall of fame.


    Joe Lawson

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:13 AM  

  • If not Buck...who?
    Rachel Alarid
    Washington, D.C.

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