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Article: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to Celebrate Life Of Legendary Baseball Ambassador Buck O'Neil.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- October 7, 2006
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is saddened to report the death of its chairman, John "Buck" O'Neil, one of baseball's all-time greatest ambassadors, who passed away last night. He was 94 years old.
Buck passed away at approximately 9 p.m., Friday at Research Medical Center from complications of congestive heart failure and recently diagnosed bone marrow cancer.
Arrangements are pending for a private funeral to take place on Saturday, Oct. 14, in his beloved Kansas City. A separate memorial service, open to the public, will be held later that day at a location to be determined, to celebrate Buck's remarkable life.
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