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	Buck Leonard \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Leonard tied for the HR lead and won his third batting title with a.395 mark in 1948.
		Leonard compiled a lifetime.341 average in the Negro National League and a.382 mark in exhibitions against major leaguers.
		Leonard and Gibson were inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues in 1972.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/Leonard_Buck.stm (558 words)

	Buck Leonard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since Gibson was known as the "Black Babe Ruth" and Leonard was a first baseman, Buck Leonard was inevitably called the "Black Lou Gehrig", an apt comparison in terms of their hitting numbers, although some consider Leonard superior to Lou Gehrig as a fielder.
		Leonard led the Negro Leagues in batting average in 1948 with a mark of.395, and usually either led the league in home runs or finished second in homers to teammate Josh Gibson.
		After retiring permanently as a player in 1955, Leonard worked as a truant officer, physical education instructor and as the vice-president of a minor league team in his birthplace of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a team of which he was also a board member.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buck_Leonard (413 words)

	Buck Leonard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walter "Buck" Leonard (born September 8, 1907 - died November 27, 1997) was a (Click link for more info and facts about Negro League baseball) Negro League baseball player.
		Leonard batted fourth in their lineup behind (Click link for more info and facts about Josh Gibson) Josh Gibson.
		Since Gibson was known as the "Black Babe Ruth" and Leonard was a first baseman, Buck Leonard was inevitably called the "Black Lou Gehrig", an apt comparison in terms of their hitting numbers, although some consider Leonard superior to (Baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)) Lou Gehrig as a fielder.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/buck_leonard.htm (422 words)

	Buck Leonard
		Leonard and Josh Gibson, batting third and fourth in the Grays' lineup for a decade, were the Negro League's version of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, and the Grays' lineup, which also included Sam Bankhead, Cool Papa Bell, Howard Easterling, Jud Wilson and Vic Harris was considered the Negro Leagues' murderers row.
		Leonard's homers, in 1937 against Ted Trent, in 1941 against Double Duty Radcliffe, and in 1943 against Theolic Smith are some of the biggest moments in fl all-star history.
		Buck Leonard was given a high school diploma from Rocky Mount High School in 1959, at age 52 as there were no high schools for African-Americans in the 1920s when Leonard was high school age.
	www.pitchblackbaseball.com /nlotmbuckleonard.html (597 words)

	Leonard J. Buck Garden in Far Hills New Jersey
		Buck discovered the layout of outcroppings, and the men chiseled and shoveled, picked and blasted to expose the basalt--once hot lava that formed the Second Watchung mountain about 175 million years ago.
		Buck put in were gifts from other plantsmen, and that the azaleas and rhododendrons came from breeders around the country, many identified only by numbers.
		Buck, that if he spent time clearing one more outcropping, she would go to Reno for a divorce.
	www.njskylands.com /atbuckgar.htm (1352 words)

	WALTER FENNER (BUCK) LEONARD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Together, Buck and Josh were the twin twisters of the Homestead dynasties in the late 30s and 40s.
		Leonard was the son of John, a railroad fireman and Emma.
		Leonard and his brother Charley (a pitcher) received their initial training with the semi-pro Rocky Mount Elks, the Black Swans and the Dougherty's Black Revels.
	my.execpc.com /~sshivers/leonard.html (1114 words)

	MLB.com - Negro Leagues
		Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard, the cleanup hitter of the Negro National League's Homestead Grays, was always paired in the lineup with legendary power hitter Josh Gibson.
		Buck proved to be a clutch performer, typified by his.500 batting average in the 1944 Negro World Series -- the second of consecutive titles for the Grays.
		After his retirement, Leonard served as vice president of the Rocky Mount Leafs in the Class-A Carolina League, worked as an athletic director and truant officer for a school district, and ran the Buck Leonard Realty Agency.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/mlb_negro_leagues_profile.jsp?player=leonard_buck (819 words)

	Buck Leonard - BR Bullpen
		Buck Leonard played semipro baseball until 1933, when playing with the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he was signed by the Brooklyn Elite Giants.
		Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard was born Sunday 8 September 1907 in Rocky Mount, NC, the son of a railroad fireman and the oldest of six children.
		Leonard tied for the homerun lead and won his third batting title with a.395 mark in 1948.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Buck_Leonard (2140 words)

	Buck Leonard
		Walter "Buck" Leonard was a standout first baseman for the renowned pre-World War II Homestead Grays of the Negro Leagues.
		Leonard was born in September 1907, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
		Leonard was voted as the 47th best baseball player ever in 1999, by The Sporting News, and as a fitting tribute to a "respected, quiet, intellectual man," he was elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3781.html (881 words)

	African American Registry: In either league Buck Leonard was great.
		Leonard began his baseball career as a semi-pro star in his hometown of Rocky Mount, North Carolina but in 1933 he was forced by the depression to leave home to pursue a professional career.
		Fortunately, although national recognition of his great talent also came late, it was not too late, for Buck was still able to smell the roses when he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame along with Josh Gibson in 1972.
		He was the left-handed half of the homestead Gray's power tandem, Buck Leonard paired with Josh Gibson to lead Cum Posey's Grays to nine consecutive Negro National League championships during their untroubled years, 1937-45.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1136/In_either_league_Buck_Leonard_was_great (550 words)

	O'Neil, John Jordan 'Buck' - Negro League Baseball Player
		Buck was nicknamed after the co-owner of the semi-pro Miami Giants, Buck O'Neil.
		Buck hit.333 against the Eagles, along with two home runs (one a grandslam), but his Monarchs fell in seven games.
		Buck also had the honor of managing the West squad in 1950, 1953, 1954 and 1955.
	www.nlbpa.com /o_neil__john_jordan_-_buck.html (506 words)

	Buck Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		May 28, 2004 12:50 PM Often referred to as “The Black Lou Gehrig”, Walter “Buck” Leonard was among the Negro Leagues’ elite players.
		While Gibson was slugging away, Leonard’s batting average was consistently in the top ten throughout his career (Thunder).
		Leonard not only made his mark batting, but also starred at first base.
	www.headroyce.org /~us_history/2004/b_ct/buckleonard.html (362 words)

	Buck Leonard -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Buck, Pearl S. The daughter of American missionaries who served in China, Pearl S. Buck was one of the first writers to try to explain the mystery of the Far East to Western readers.
		With his wife, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf founded Hogarth Press, a company that published Virginia's books, and together the Woolfs were the nucleus of the Bloomsbury group, a London literary group that included many important thinkers of the day.
		Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912 at the age of thirty.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002998 (793 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Buck Leonard
		A left-handed first baseman, Leonard played semi-pro baseball until 1933, when he began playing for the all-fl Baltimore Stars at the age of twenty-five.
		Leonard was also renowned for his great range and strong throwing arm.
		Leonard later became a director and vice-president of the Class A minor league team in his home town of Rocky Mount.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/leonardbuck.shtml (241 words)

	Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Buck Leonard
		The left-handed half of the homestead Gray's power tandem, Buck Leonard paired with Josh Gibson to lead Cum Posey's Grays to nine consecutive Negro National League championships during their halcyon years, 1937-45.
		With Josh rejoining Buck in the Gray's lineup, the team won back-to-back World Series in 1943-44, featuring Buck's torrid.500 batting average in the latter series.
		Buck Leonard: The Black Lou Gehrig, Buck Leonard and James A. Riley
	www.blackbaseball.com /players/buckleonard.htm (591 words)

	Leonard, Buck - Negro Leagues Baseball Star
		A superb first baseman, Leonard was a model of consistency, digging throws out of the dirt, seizing bunts, and showcased an accurate and powerful throwing arm.
		Leonard won his only batting title that season with a hefty.395 average.
		Buck Leonard was one batter that pitchers feared the most.
	www.nlbpa.com /leonard__buck.html (457 words)

	Will Power (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Calling his best friend, Dave Buck, Leonard asked, “If anything happens, what would happen to CoachVille?” He was speaking of his business, an online hub with everything from industry news to online classes for personal-growth coaches.
		Buck was a coach and was familiar with CoachVille, so Leonard asked if Buck would take over the company, should Leonard die prematurely.
		Buck had lost his closest pal and gained a business that has 45,000 subscribing members and brought in more than $2 million in 2003 in reserve.
	www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,316707,00.html (347 words)

	Weekend event remembers Buck Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leonard, a Rocky Mount native, played in 12 Negro Leagues all-star games and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 1972.
		Leonard, who died in 1997, played baseball starting in the 1930s with the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh and the Mexican League, said Rose Hunter, the chief executive officer of the Buck Leonard Association For Sports and Human Enrichment.
		Leonard's widow, Lugenia Leonard, 86, of Rocky Mount said the goal of the Buck Leonard Association is to inspire people with her late husband's legacy.
	www.rockymounttelegram.com /news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/10/25/1067132970.19830.6658.8891.html (511 words)

	Somerset County Park Commission
		The Leonard J. Buck Garden is one of the premier rock gardens in the eastern United States.
		Leonard J. Buck, who developed the garden as part of his estate, it was donated to the Somerset County Park Commission by Mrs.
		The Buck Garden's peak bloom is in spring, when favorite wildflowers, diminutive alpines, and delicate azaleas all compete for attention, but there is something interesting in bloom almost every week of the year.
	www.somersetcountyparks.org /activities/gardens/gardens_Buck.htm (302 words)

	Botanical, Landscape -- Leonard J. Buck Garden (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Leonard J. Buck Garden is one of the premier rock gardens in the United States.
		Buck developed a Naturalistic Garden designed to be ecologically correct and not recognizable as being man-made.
		Though the Buck Garden is of interest year-round, the peak time is in spring, when life begins to stir among the many flowers.
	www.fieldtrip.com /nj/12342677.htm (281 words)

	Buck Leonard - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buck Leonard - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Walter "Buck" Leonard (born September 8, 1907 - died November 27, 1997) was a Negro League baseball player.
		He worked in a textile mill and as a shoeshine boy at a railroad station, the latter being typical of the sad plight of many African Americans of the day.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Buck_Leonard (424 words)

	Benny Leonard — FactMonster.com
		Leonard, Benny, 1896–1947, American boxer, originally named Benjamin Leiner, b.
		Leonard, a master boxer and hard puncher, fought in 209 professional bouts, losing only 5.
		Walter (Buck) Leonard - Walter (Buck) Leonard Born: Sept. 8, 1907 Baseball 1B won Negro League championship nine years in a...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0829431.html (87 words)

	Buck Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walter "Buck" Leonard was born on September 8, 1907 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA.
		At the age of 14 he left school for the simple reason that no high school education was available for Blacks in his hometown.
		Since Gibson was known as the "Black Babe Ruth" and Leonard was a first baseman, Buck Leonard was inevitably called the "Black Lou Gehrig", an apt comparison in terms of their hitting numbers, although Leonard was superior to Gehrig as a fielder.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/buck_leonard (444 words)

	Buck Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buck Leonard was the slugging first baseman of the Homestead Grays when the team won Negro league pennants nine years in a row (1937-1945).
		A lefthanded power hitter, the pull-hitting Leonard, who feasted on fastballs, demonstrated his smooth, powerful stroke by hitting line drives off and over the walls while Gibson hit tape-measure shots.
		Leonard was equally smooth and consistent at first base; he was a dependable, intelligent fielder, rarely making the wrong play, and whose sure-handed glove work was compared with that of Hal Chase and George Sisler.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Leonard.htm (570 words)

	Leonard "Buck" Groves Biographical Sketch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buck and Vera have one son, Brandon, who still lives at home.
		While attending the church in Chester, brother Groves taught a teenage class, led singing and served as a deacon from 1970-1984.
		His father, who is also named Leonard, gave Buck his nickname which has stuck with him.
	www.gospelgazette.com /biographies/buck.shtml (181 words)

	Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
		They are filled with memorabilia donated or on loan from the players, their families or long-time collectors.
		Early on, the museum received a great deal of Buck Leonard memorabilia from his widow.
		Leonard, the Negro League great, died in 1997.
	www.nlbm.com /ns/NewsDetail.cfm?NewsID=39 (444 words)

	Buck O'Neil/Pitch Black Negro League site
		For years Leonard was a fixture with the Homestead Grays and O'Neil with the Kansas City Monarchs.
		Although Buck Leonard was the best first baseman of the 1930s and 40s, Buck O'Neil was a star in his own right.
		Though Negro League statistics for many of O'Neil's seasons are incomplete, in 1952, when O'Neil was 40 years old, he led the league in fielding percentage at.988, and was 12th in batting with a.333 average, 12 doubles, 1 triple, 5 homers and 37 RBIs in 171 at bats.
	www.pitchblackbaseball.com /nlotmbuckoneil.html (646 words)

	Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Buck Leonard
		Buck Leonard and James A. Riley, Carroll and Graf, 1995.
		This is Buck's story in his own words, tracing his life from his humble beginnings to the present.
		Not only an eyewitness account of the history of the Negro leagues told by one of the all-time greats, it is also a saga of the fl experience, vividly illustrating what it was like to be a fl American in the years before our country's social conscience was awakened.
	www.blackbaseball.com /books/leonard.htm (227 words)

	BBTF's Hall of Merit Discussion :: Buck Leonard
		Leonard suffered a broken hand in 1942 which caused him to miss the East-West game and hindered him in the World Series, so I posit considerable missed playing time that season, but high durability elsewhere.
		However, it should be noted that since these seasons (though not Leonard’s stats in particular) are part of the set of seasons used in calculating the conversion factor, this is another bit of evidence suggesting that the standard conversion factor may be slightly low for the rest of NeL history.
		Leonard's developing this still of hitting may have been influenced by his home ballparks -- Forbes Field and Griffith Stadium -- which were not homer-friendly but which gave good value for doubles and triples.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/hall_of_merit/discussion/buck_leonard (3863 words)

	My First Buck (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You have to understand that Leonard was the most serious hunter I have ever met.
		I want to make it to the landmark Leonard had showed me the afternoon before, so that I knew I could be at the top before daylight.
		I felt sure that had one of them been a buck, his day was done.
	www.tracker-outdoors.com /my_first_buck.htm (2771 words)

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