# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buck-o-neil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:40:14.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buck-o-neil"
name: "Buck O'Neil"
slug: "buck-o-neil"
description: "John Jordan \"Buck\" O'Neil Jr. was an American first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he worked as a scout and became the first African American coach in Major League Baseball. In his later years he became a popular and renowned speaker and interview subject, helping to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022 as an executive."
tagline: "American Hall of Fame baseball player & manager (1911–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Buck_O'Neil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1911-11-13"
deathDate: "2006-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.85
  momentum:             2.340862422997947
  historical:           7.373088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48794e39-ec58-4e90-b150-b143369d288b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "باك أونيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil"
    title: "Buck O'Neil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil"
    title: "Buck O'Neil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "バック・オニール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O%E2%80%99Neil"
    title: "Buck O’Neil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil"
    title: "Buck O'Neil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B4%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%A5%A5%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94"
    title: "巴克·奥尼尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2398459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump