Negro Leagues star Buck O'Neil dead at 94
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John "Buck" O'Neil, a key figure in Negro Leagues baseball and a ground-breaking coach in the major leagues, has died at the age of 94.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Negro leagues great Buck O'Neil took a turn for the worse late Thursday but was resting comfortably in a Kansas City hospital Friday, friends said.
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Commissioner Bud Selig lamented the death of Buck O'Neil on Saturday, calling the former Negro Leagues star an extraordinary human being.
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Pat Dobson, one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, dies at the age of 64 on Wednesday night.
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Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, collapsed and died Saturday. He was 35 and, sadly, would have turned 36 today.
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Johnny Lane Oates, who spent parts of 11 seasons in major-league baseball as a player and parts of another 11 as a manager, died Friday after a long fight with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor.
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Baseball Pat Dobson , one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, has died. He was 64. Dobson died Wednesday night in the San Diego area, the San Francisco Giants said yesterday. He was a special assistant to Giants general manager Brian Sabean this year, his ninth with the club. The team didn't immediately ...
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Former Dodgers star Clem Labine, whose relief pitching helped Brooklyn win the 1955 World Series over crosstown rival Yankees, died Friday at age 80, the National League club announced from their Vero Beach, Florida, training camp.
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Johnny Oates, the only manager to lead the Texas Rangers to the playoffs, died Friday at the age of 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago and doctors at the
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James L. Ogle Sr., who wrote two books with Roger Maris during a reporting career that spanned five decades, died at 93.
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Television entertainer Johnny Carson  has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network  reported on its Web site Sunday.
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Guitarist Hank Garland, who worked with Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, dies at the age of 74.
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ORANGE PARK, FLA. - Hank Garland, a guitarist who played country, rock and jazz with a range of musicians that included Elvis Presley and Charlie Parker, died Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Anita O'Day, the last of the great jazz singers spawned by the swing era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was 87.
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Buck O'Neil has been hospitalized because of extreme fatigue, and friends are becoming increasingly worried about the 94-year-old former Negro Leagues player.
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Lew Burdette, MVP of the 1957 World Series when he pitched the Milwaukee Braves to their only championship, dies in Winter Garden, Fla. He was 80.
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Former Texas and Baltimore manager Johnny Oates has died at age 58. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago. Oates&#39; death was confirmed by John Blake, who formerly worked as a spokesman with the Rangers organization.