- Baseball player in the Negro American League. With the Memphis Red Sox in 1937; remainder of career with the Kansas City Monarchs.
- A great baseball player and manager, he sent more Negro players to the "white" major leagues than anyone in baseball history.
- After his death in October 2006, his body lay in state at the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, which he helped found.
- Played in the Northern League All-Star game for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks and then the Kansas City T-Bones on July 18, 2006 at the age of 94. He drew two intentional walks and never actually played in the field.
- On 24 October 2007, before the first game of the World Series between the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig announced that O'Neil will be honored with a statue at the Hall of Fame and by the establishment of the the Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. O'Neil will be the first recipient of the award at the 2008 Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. The award's purpose is to honor an individual "whose extraordinary efforts enhanced baseball's positive impact on society, has broadened the game's appeal, and whose character, integrity and dignity are comparable to the qualities exhibited by O'Neil".
- Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022; elected by the Early Baseball Era Committee.
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