| LC control no. | n 96016360 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006 |
| Variant(s) | O'Neil, John Jordan, Jr., 1911-2006 O'Neil, John, 1911-2006 O'Neil, John, (Baseball player) |
| Other standard no. | 0000000110508949 31256283 Q2398459 |
| Biography/History note | O'Neil was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously, in Dec. 2006. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1911-11-13 |
| Death date | 2006-10-06 |
| Place of birth | Carrabelle (Fla.) |
| Place of death | Kansas City (Mo.) |
| Field of activity | Negro leagues |
| Affiliation | Kansas City Monarchs (Baseball team) Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) Kansas City Royals (Baseball team) Edward Waters College |
| Profession or occupation | Baseball players Baseball managers Sailors |
| Special note | URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs. |
| Found in | I was right on time, c1996: CIP t.p. (Buck O'Neil) galley (John Jordan O'Neil, Junior, b. Nov. 13, 1911, Carrabelle, Fla.) Wikipedia, Oct. 8, 2006 (Buck O'Neil; John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil (Nov. 13, 1911-Oct. 6, 2006) was an American first baseman and manager in Negro league baseball) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O%27Neil> African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (O'Neil, Buck; John Jordan O'Neil Jr.; baseball player, athletic coach / manager, sailor; born 13 November 1911 in Carrabelle, Florida, United States; began playing semipro ball at the age of twelve; attended segregated public schools in Sarasota, Florida, and Edward Waters College in Jacksonville; left college before earning his degree to join the Tampa Black Smokers; signed on with Miami Giants; signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League (1937); won two individual batting titles and the Monarchs, won seven pennants and a Negro World Series championship (1937-1947); became the club's manager (1948); the Monarchs franchise was sold to a Michigan promoter and all but disbanded (1955); went to work as a scout for the Chicago Cubs; became a coach for the Cubs (1962) but never assumed on-field duties; returned to scouting, first for the Cubs and later for the Kansas City Royals (1964); became an overnight national celebrity with the screening of Ken Burns's multipart documentary film Baseball (1994); was a member of the Veterans Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; posthumously was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (7 December 2006); died 06 October 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States) New York times, Sept. 7, 2021: in an article on page B8 entitled, "A 15-year drought for Negro Leaguers in Cooperstown" (when stories began to break about the 2006 election, the narrative was often less about who got in [the Baseball Hall of Fame] and more about who didn't -- namely [Buck] O'Neil, the former Kansas City Monarchs first baseman) Baseball Reference.com website, 19 Sept. 2021 (Buck O'Neil, born Nov. 13, 1911 in Carrabelle, Fla.; first baseman) <https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oneilbu01.shtml> New York times website, 3 Oct. 2021: in an obituary published Oct. 7, 2006 (Buck O'Neil; born John Jordan O'Neil, Jr. on Nov. 13, 1911 in Carabelle, Fla., died last night [Oct. 6, 2006] in Kansas City, Mo., aged 94; a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues who devoted the final decade of his life to chronicling the lost world of black baseball) <https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/sports/baseball/buck-oneil-negro-leagues-pioneer-is-dead-at-94.html?searchResultPosition=1> |
| Associated language | eng |
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