Buck O'Neil on Letterman, July 20, 1998

[@sydismine]

HOF is blessed forever! Thank you Buck! ⚾️🥲✌🏼❤️

[@rem-so1ly]

What a charming, wonderful guy

[@jashon1230]

We love you Buck. Congratulations!

[@forestgump8357]

What a wonderful heart this man has.

[@shikinaaiken9780]

Thank you Mr. ONEIL FOR YOUR SERVICE❤💪🏾⚾️

[@erniegriego3930]

A true national treasure and great ambassador to the game

[@reptiles1961]

Bucks a great man and ballplayer Congratulations.

[@sgtcrab2569]

What a great guy!

[@navigatorjack6969]

What history!!!!

[@razorsharpe3371]

One the greatest and most entertaining interviews ever! Thank you for sharing this .

[@joepublic6441]

Congrats to Buck for finally making the MLB Baseball Hall of Fame finally….

[@ericschneider4976]

One of the great oversights ever finally corrected

[@briandavidson1946]

They should have done it when he was alive. Met Buck 19 years ago. Huge hands. Confident demeanor. He was a good human being. Shame on the Hall. But his family can rejoice!

[@exdemocrat9038]

@@briandavidson1946 I'd like to see those baseball writers who didn't vote for him.

[@WorldwideWyatt]

One of the great shames of the Hall of Fame is that they didn’t induct Buck when he was still with us.

[@kennethrobinson2941]

Long overdue

[@dme1016]

If I had the opportunity to meet any man ever involved in baseball at ANY level, and shake their hand, Mr. Buck O'Neal would be my choice. An absolutely wonderful human being, a charming, intelligent, handsome repository of baseball history. His inclusion on Ken Burns "Baseball" elevated that series. Rest in piece, Sir.

[@STOCathain]

Buck was a wonderful guy. I was lucky to meet him twice when he came to sign hats and baseballs at the KC T-Bones. My Dad took me to his coffin at the NLBM back in 2006. He was one of the best people KC has yet seen.

[@ronachten2902]

If anyone out there enjoyed Buck here, make sure to catch Ken Burn's "Baseball." This man steals the show.

[@quadparty]

The request was mine, and I'm very happy with it. If you're interested in more the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum held a online rememberance yesterday, on what would have been Buck's 109th Birthday kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqm7l3uHnbWNj8U

[@sportsbabe1125]

Buck O’Neil stole the entire documentary “Baseball”. Loved it!

[@kevinpatrick3280]

No one told a story like Buck O'Neil.

[@DJReyzor357]

I'm halfway through episode 4 of Ken Burns Baseball ⚾️ it is amazing 👏🏽

[@guillaumedemers4711]

Thats where is learned about him being a quebecer I tape it on VHS and it was in french!!! I had all nine innings and this gentleman right there fascinated me as I was into knowing about the Negro League

[@kawilson6628]

There was a time where I met Buck. He hugged me & my sisters. I became overwhelmed. He actually calm me with how emotional I became. My sister later explained, It was like getting a hug from God. Buck was the best ambassador of baseball, KCMO & life. Forever Miss Buck!

[@veteranpatriot4474]

Mr. O'Neil could turn a Klansman to the Lord. Listening to Him helped Me grow as a Christian and a Man. Sir 1 day in Heaven I hope to talk to you for a couple of years. What an AMAZING Man.

[@tonyapendleton7467]

What a gracious, grateful, handsome man!

[@KBB4eva]

Overdue but a great ambassador for baseball

[@la142323]

Love Buck! Great, great stories & wisdom. Great man! I read Jackie Robinson's biography - now I want to read Buck's biography too.

[@luishumbertovega3900]

Letterman hit it out of tbe park inviting this 1-derful man to his show, wish the segment had been longer, I could hear Buck talking for hours, charisma all the way, a walking encyclopedia and great storyteller, so sorry he wasn't alive at the moment of his HOF induction this summer.

[@shaneemery1530]

Congrats to Buck. I have so many memories of talking to him. Should have happened years ago!

[@TJamesBell]

That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing, Don Giller.

[@nicolasvaldez8192]

If you look up the word class in the dictionary you'll see a picture of Buck O'Neil

[@TheBatugan77]

His book, 'I Was Right On Tims', is a fantastic read. And if you visit Kauffman Stadium, in KC, there's a red seat behind home plate, in a sea of Royal Blue. Buck's chair.

[@SidelerMN]

The great Buck O’Neil. Thanks for sharing.

[@couldsleep]

Eloquent, thoughtful, and hands that could crush grapefruits

[@ziggystardust911]

Very Cool, Don !!! 😎 ..I've always wished I could've seen Buck O'Neil, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Cool Papa Bell play in their prime..! Very Classy ! 😎 Thanks ! 😁

[@jamesanthony5681]

Buck O'Neil *WAS* the star of the Ken Burn's "Baseball" series.

[@MrDeterioration]

What a thoroughly charming man!

[@gates69]

What a great guy. Thanks so much for uploading this.

[@DjTrebble]

Thank you Don Giller.

[@dougtombaugh4438]

Mr. O’Neil was pure class, a true treasure.

[@quadparty]

Wow! Thank you so much!

[@seanwelch71]

Great clip Don!

[@bobbywright6062]

Always blows me away to see the WTC’s on these old show’s. I was visiting my sister in the Village, off Rivington, a week before they fell. I made it home ok, but she watched the 2nd tower fall from her rooftop and became a refugee of Manhattan. Crazy times! Edit: just have to say, and it should be obvious, that our struggles were nothing compared to anyone effected by the crisis… whether that be 9/11/01 or the many millions of Mid Easterner’s that died in reaction to it. I’ve got a lot to say at 230 am, apparently?

[@srvfan25]

What is the name of the song that the guys are playing at the start of the video?

[@dongiller]

Eagles - “Life in the Fast Lane.”

[@TJamesBell]

'Kansas City' by Wilbert Harrison.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

The older Letterman got the more hyper his brain seemed to have gotten when he interviewed guests. When O’Neil said he began playing baseball at the age of 12 it was pretty obvious he wasn’t referring to the professional leagues. But Letterman misinterpreted what he said, which is why O’Neil said when he was that age he was good “but not that good.”

[@joedellaselva1251]

David did you ever make it to the museum in Kansas City?