On this date in 1956, Buck Weaver died at the age of 65.
"There are murderers who serve a sentence and then got out. I got life."
On his lifetime banishment from baseball due to his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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I completely forgot that was today.
If anyone is making a trip to the south side of Chicago, near the south suburbs, I wrote a post last year about how to locate Buck's grave very easily, with pictures included.
http://whitesoxcards.blogspot.com/2010/04/buck-weaver-found.html
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