Buck O&#8217;Neil, Negro Leagues Pioneer, Is Dead at 94
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Buck OÂNeil was a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues.
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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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Pat Dobson, who died last Wednesday, was one of four OriolesÂ pitchers in 1971 who started 142 of the teamÂs 158 regular-season games and completed 70 of those starts.
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Two-time All-Star Ray Boone, patriarch of a three-generation baseball family, died early Sunday following a long illness. He was 81.
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Artie Shaw, the legendary jazz band leader who enthralled audiences with his clarinet during the swing era, has died at the age of 94, the BBC reported.
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Leonard Lindquist, who helped the NFL players organize their first union, died last week. He was 92.
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Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, a New Orleans sports commentator who originated the tradition of fans wearing bags on their heads to lament losing teams, has died at the age of 73. Diliberto died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Metairie, said his son, Mike Diliberto.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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Nellie Briles, who won two World Series titles during his 14-year career as a major league pitcher, died Sunday, the Pittsburgh Pirates said. He was 61.
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NEW YORK -- Hank Bauer, the tough ex-Marine who set a World Series record with a 17-game hitting streak for the New York Yankees and later managed the Baltimore Orioles to the 1966 title, died Friday. He was 84. Bauer died in the Kansas City area, where he made his home, Yankees spokesman Jason...
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Bluesman B.B. King, who picked cotton  before picking up a guitar, and John "Buck" O'Neil, the  grandson of a slave who became Major League Baseball's first  black coach, are among this year's Presidential Medal of  Freedom recipients, the White House said on Thursday.
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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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ODB, the rapper best known for his work with the Wu-Tang Clan and as a solo artist for his collaboration with Kelis on the track &#39;Got Your Money&#39;, has died.
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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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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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Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.
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Friends and family gathered at a church in Harlem, New York, to remember rapper ODB (Ol&#39;Dirty Bastard) on Wednesday. The 35-year-old collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio on Sunday after complaining of chest pains.