Buck O'Neil

[M GO BLUE!!!]

O'Neil apparently has lost his voice

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Negro leagues great Buck O'Neil took a turn for the worse late Thursday but was resting comfortably in a Kansas City hospital Friday, friends said.

The 94-year-old O'Neil was admitted to the hospital Sept. 17 with extreme fatigue. O'Neil, one of the driving forces in the creation of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, has lost his voice and can only whisper.

Bob Kendrick, marketing director for the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City, said Friday that since O'Neil took a turn for the worse Thursday night there had been no change in his condition.

"The last report I got was that he was still very much aware of what's going on around him," Kendrick said. "We hope that remains the same and the outlook will be good."

A former Negro leagues batting champion and player-manager with the Kansas City Monarchs, O'Neil holds many distinctions in his long career. In February, he fell one vote short of induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Buck O'Neil is one of those guys that you just have to love... I hoe he gets better and receives the allocades he deserves int he time he has left.

[cartman]

Yep, same here. It is a travesty that he hasn't been inducted into the Baseball HoF. Sure, maybe his numbers as a player in the Negro League might not have been impressive, but the tireless work he has done to keep the Negro League in the public realm and get it recognized via museums and such should be more than enough to get him enshrined.

[Eaglesfan27]

He's generally seemed like a class act as well. I hope he gets better soon.

[SunDevil]

Get Well Soon.


Also agree that he should be in the Hall of Fame.