Until spring of last year, I'd never heard of Buck O'Neil. The Negro League baseball players whom I could name had all played in the Major Leagues and been inducted into the Hall of Fameplayers such as Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, Roy Campanella and Ernie Banks. But most African-American baseball legends of the '50s and '60s first ran onto the field in cities like Kansas City, St. Louis, and Birmingham to play for Negro League teams, to say nothing of the scores of players who played in the majors but never made it to Cooperstown.
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