'Cooperstown Chances' examines the Baseball Hall of Fame case of one candidate each week. This week: Negor League legend Buck O'Neil.
Who he was: Buck O’Neil would have been the oldest Hall of Famer at the time of being voted in, if only a special Negro League Committee had inducted him in February 2006. The committee notoriously enshrined 17 Negro League contributors — but not the most famous representative of black baseball.
“We made a big mistake,” the chairman of that committee and former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent told Sporting News in January.