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- Buck Leonard (born September 8, 1907, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.—died November 27, 1997, Rocky Mount) was an American baseball player who was one of the best first basemen in the Negro leagues.
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- Buck Leonard (born September 8, , Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.—died November 27, , Rocky Mount) was an American baseball player who was one of the best first basemen in the Negro leagues.
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- Buck Leonard was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on September 8, His father John was a railroad fireman and his mother Emma Leonard (née Sesson) a housewife.
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Leonard, Buck
1907-1997
Baseball player
Buck Leonard was one of the first African Americans inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Leonard was drafted by the Pittsburgh Homestead Grays of the National Negro Leagues and played a record seventeen years for the team, winning ten Negro National League pennants (nine consecutively) and appearing in a record twelve East-West All-Star Games.
Grew up in a Railroad Town
Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard was born in 1907 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a small town with a population of just over 7,500 and an economy based on railroad construction and tobacco farming. Leonard was the eldest of six children born to John Leonard, a railroad fireman, and homemaker Emma Leonard. The family lived in the Little Raleigh neighborhood of Rocky Mount, on a small farm where they raised chickens, geese, ducks, and hogs. Leonard left school after completing eighth grade at Lincoln Junior High School because no local