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GoHeels Exclusive: Tar Heels Celebrate Buck Leonard, 100th Anniversary Of Negro Leagues Baseball

By Pat James, GoHeels.com

Of all the wonderful memories from Mike Fox's time in and around baseball, one that he cherishes most came away from the field, back when he was the head coach at N.C. Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Fox was early in his tenure with the Battling Bishops when he visited the home of one of Rocky Mount's finest, Buck Leonard. A member of the Homestead Grays for 17 seasons and a 1972 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Leonard is considered one of the best players not only in the history of the Negro Leagues, but in all of baseball.