Opinion: Buck O’Neil is finally a Hall of Famer. That it took so long is another stain on baseball.
Baseball righted an egregious wrong Sunday by voting the late John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil into the Hall of Fame.
O’Neil was a player and manager in the Negro Leagues, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs, and became a scout for the Chicago Cubs in the 1950s. He was the first Black coach in the major leagues when the Cubs hired him in 1962.