Buck O'Neil's Lesson on Dealing With Defeat Like a Man
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, in 2021, former Negro Leauge Baseball player Buck O'Neil was finally made it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, years after being rejected, to the surprise of his friends, by one vote. Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, tells the story of how Buck handled this loss, in Bob's words, "like a man".
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| 1:52.3 | Up next, a story from Bob Kendrick, |
| 1:57.0 | president of the Negro League's baseball museum in Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 2:03.0 | Today, Bob shares with us a story about one of his friends, Buck O'Neill. Take it away, Bob. |
| 2:13.2 | Our guests walk into the Negro Licks Baseball Museum, and you literally walk through the turnstiles into an old ballpark. And the first thing that you see is the field. |
| 2:19.3 | The Field of Legends. |
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