Buck's Best Day

From “The Soul of Baseball”

Buck would have turned 105 on Sunday. For his friend and mine, Bob Kendrick, I pulled out the story about Buck O’Neil’s best day.

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“What was your best day?” I asked him. I’d heard him tell it a hundred times. I wanted to know if he was awake.

“Easter Sunday, 1943, Memphis, Tennessee,” he said immediately. He opened his eyes.…