Photos and information on Buck O'Neil, black chairman of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, former player and manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, and "the first African-American coach to be hired by a major league team when he joined the Chicago Cubs in 1962." Description of his life and career, born in Florida as John O'Neil about 1912 and playing in Kansas City from 1939 to about 1956, winning four consecutive Negro American League pennants from 1939 to 1942 and having a fountain named for him in the 18th & Vine District, etc.