"For Buck": Part Two - Bob Kendrick and Joe Posnanski on the Hall of Fame Legacy of Buck O'Neil

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History, Baseball, Black History, Sports, Negro Leagues, Documentary, Equality, Society & Culture, Civil Rights

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Joe Posnanski, author of "The Soul of Baseball" and "The Baseball 100", joins Bob Kendrick to celebrate their friend, Buck O'Neil, and remember the day Buck was denied election to the Baseball Hall of Fame (14:31), his iconic speech at the 2006 induction ceremony (32:02), and the dignity and grace with which he responded, as well as pitch his candidacy for 2022. Plus, Bob raises a few issues with "The Baseball 100" on behalf of Satchel Paige (1:05:59).

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0:00.0	Major League Baseball on Sirius XM is a fan's field of dreams.
0:05.7	I can hear every game?
0:07.3	From the first pitch to the last out of the World Series.
0:11.3	What about my hometown announcers?
0:13.5	They're on the Sirius XM app.
0:15.8	They built it knowing you would come.
0:18.1	Ray, there's even an entire radio channel filled with experts talking baseball all day long.
0:24.4	Is this heaven?
0:25.8	No, Ray.
0:26.8	It's MLB Network Radio, Channel 89.
0:30.3	Experience Negro Leagues 101, a celebration of the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Negro
0:37.2	leagues at the Negro Leagues
0:37.6	at the Negro League's Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
0:40.6	For more information, plus event schedules, video exhibits, and safety guidelines,
0:46.0	visit nLBM.com and follow the museum on Twitter at NLB Museum KC
0:52.6	and follow Bob at NLBM Press.
1:01.0	It was February 27, 2006, a day that I will never forget as long as my mother would say that I'm in my natural mind.
1:11.0	Buck O'Neill and I left home that morning with Stoucases packed
1:14.1	with airline tickets that the Hall of Fame had purchased for us.
1:18.0	That's how sure we were that Buckle Neal was going to get
1:21.0	into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1:23.8	Hear the story of how this took such a tremendous turn with my friend Joe Posnansky,
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