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marsh buck: see bushbuck.

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O'Neil, Buck (John Jordan O'Neil), 1911-2006, African-American baseball player and coach, b. Carrabelle, Fla. One of the stars of the Negro leagues, he began playing semipro baseball at 12, and his career came to span seven decades. An outstanding clutch hitter and skilled first baseman, O'Neil led the league in batting in 1940 and again in 1946 after serving inthe Navy. After retiring as a player, he managed the Monarchs from 1948 to 1955 and led them to five pennants and two Black World Series. More than 20 players he managed, including Ernie Banks and Elston Howard, became major leaguers when baseball finally integrated. In 1953 O'Neil was hired by the Chicago Cubs as a scout, and in 1962 he became the first African-American major-league coach. The founding chairman (1997-2006) of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

See his autobiography, I Was Right on Time (1997); biography by S. D. Wheelock (1997).

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Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker

Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker, 1892-1973, American author, b. Hillsboro, W.Va., grad. Randolph-Macon Women's College, 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is famous for vivid, compassionate novels about life in China. The Good Earth (1931; Pulitzer Prize), considered her finest work, describes a Chinese peasant's rise to wealth and brilliantly conveys a sense of the daily life of ordinary Chinese people. Among her other novels of China are East Wind: West Wind (1930), Dragon Seed (1942), Imperial Woman (1956), and Mandala (1971). In 1935, she married her publisher Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Company. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, which provided care for the children of Asian women and American soldiers; the Pearl Buck Foundation of Philadelphia, to which she consigned most of her royalties, aids in the adoption of Amerasian children. Her more than 85 books include works for children, plays, biographies, and works of nonfiction, such as China As I See It (1970).

See her autobiography, My Several Worlds (1954); biography by T. F. Harris (2 vol., 1969-71).

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Buck, Carl Darling

Buck, Carl Darling, 1866-1955, American philologist, b. Orlando, Maine. Buck taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1892 to 1933. His Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (1904) is still authoritative.

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Buck Island Reef National Monument

Buck Island Reef National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

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