Buck O'Neil - Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Speech 

He deserved to be inducted before he died but I am happy he is finally getting in. I met him in 1998 he came to talk to my baseball coaching class and after the lecture we all stayed and listened to him talk more, he was such a great guy answered all our questions and some great stories of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. I will have to make it to Cooperstown again to see his plaque.

I was thinking the same thing.

He should have gotten in when alive. He passed away about 10 weeks after this speech.

@@AEMoreira81 interesting math. He wasn't inducted until 2022!

I'm right there with u.

You'll have to hope that God gives him his release. Buck O'Neill is manager of God's team right now.

"Why would you feel sorry for me?" That's what he told Ken Burns about not getting to play in MLB.

BOB UECKER. In baseball hall of fame - but not Buck

***** STILL was NOT inducted in Baseball HOF- Lifetime Achievement Award or not

Went to Cooperstown in 2009, first thing you see when you walk in is a statue of the man himself, Buck O'neil... yet he has no plaque. Much deserving to be in the HOF

He may finally get that chance. He is one of 10 candidates on the “Early Baseball” committee’s ballot, and the vote will be held on December 5th, 2021, with the result being announced later that same day. Of the 10 candidates on that ballot, seven of them played in the Negro Leagues and eight of the ten are BIPOC (the seven Negro Leagues players and Allie Reynolds, who was mixed white and Muscogee and an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation). The Early Baseball committee vote (which covers those who made their greatest contributions to baseball before 1949) will be held alongside that of the Golden Days committee (which covers 1950-1969). My fingers are crossed for Buck and his family, and I hope his family will finally be able to celebrate his induction. To get in, he’ll need votes from 12 of the 16 committee members. (And I don’t think they’re restricted to voting for just one candidate, if I remember correctly.)

Today is the day

He’s in the hall now!!!

Good news…

"Nancy"

There is an award named after him. The Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. And yet they won't put this legend in Cooperstown.

YUP

Most Definitely an Angel of his time,God Bless him.

You and me both, brother...when Buck spoke he transported everybody listening back to their childhood

Sbe the 1st Black MGR.in the College of Coaches( Cubs 1961-65) but Phil Wrigley said no.Shamefull.

Thank goodness that injustice was rectified today. I wish he’d seen it.

You took the words out of my mouth.

That wrong was finally righted in 2022.

Agreed. Uecker's was the funniest.