Rx for Resilience: Remember

This Memorial Day weekend, we commemorate the tremendous, indomitable spirit of Navy veteran, Buck O’Neil.  We are delighted to share a private movie screening, Beyond Their Years, about his life at GlobalMindED the evening of June 8th – his service, his courage and his path of resilience. Here is more about his story, from the VA News:
 
John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Jr. was born in 1911 and got his first taste of baseball as a member of the Sarasota Tigers at 12-years-old. It was during this time in which he took his nickname, Buck, from the Miami Giants co-owner Buck O’Neal. To support himself in a world of discrimination, he found himself shining shoes and working as a box boy. After three years of working as a box boy, he realized that his physical strength could be used for something better, such as baseball.
 
Being denied admission to Sarasota High School due to his skin color, O’Neil eventually earned his high school diploma from Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida. He also earned a baseball and football scholarship. After completing two years of college, he started his career in baseball.
 
From 1938-1942, O’Neil was the first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs. From 1939-1942, they won four consecutive Negro American League pennants. Furthermore, in 1942, 1943 and 1949, he played with the West team of the East-West All-Star Classic.
 
World War II then led O’Neil to enlist for his two years in the U.S. Navy. Leaving the Monarchs, he traveled to Norfolk, Virginia, in August 1944 to prepare to enter the Navy. During his two years in service, he served in a construction battalion as a bosun. O’Neil would unload and load ships.
 
Immediately after his service, O’Neil returned to the Monarchs to resume his first basemen position in 1946. During this time, he not only won the batting title but also married Ora Lee Owens. Two years later, O’Neil became player-manager of the team. Furthermore, he led Kansas City to league pennants in 1948, 1950, 1951 and 1953 and two Negro World Series titles.
 
While denied his chance to play in the major leagues, O’Neil joined the Chicago Cubs as a scout in 1956. He was the first black coach in major league history with the Cubs in 1962.
 
He remained active in the baseball scene in the 1990s as he continued to work as a scout for the Kansas City Royals, served as the chairman of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Board of the Directors and was a member of the Veterans’ Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Adamant to preserve the legacy of the Negro Leagues, O’Neil led efforts as a co-founder to open the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1990. He even wrote a 1996 autobiography titled, “I Was Right on Time: My Journey from the Negro Leagues to the Majors.”
 
On Oct. 6, 2006, in Kansas City, Missouri, O’Neil passed away at age 94 due to bone marrow cancer and heart failure.
We honor his service.
 
In addition to Buck O’Neil, the movie Beyond Their Years, will also explore the remarkable path of the Canadian athlete, Herb Carnegie. Herb Carnegie is regularly considered the best Black hockey player to never play in the NHL. Born in Toronto, Ontario on November 8, 1919, Herb grew up listening to ‘Hockey Night in Canada,’ dreaming of one day following his Toronto Maple Leafs heroes to the NHL. But as the son of Jamaican immigrants, the path was strewn with challenges for the young man.
 
‘Swivel Hips’ Carnegie had an outstanding career playing Senior hockey. While playing with the Buffalo-Ankerite in Timmins, Ontario, the team won the championship in 1941 and 1942. The 1941-42 season that the famous ‘Black Line’ or ‘Black Aces’ first played together. The first all-Black line in semi-pro hockey was comprised of Herb and Ossie Carnegie along with Manny McIntyre. Carnegie was a fixture at the top of league scoring and won the Quebec Senior Hockey League’s MVP award in three consecutive seasons, 1947, 1948 and 1949.
 
Following his retirement from playing, Carnegie enjoyed success in the investment industry. He founded Future Aces, one of Canada's first hockey schools in 1955. Herb was also an inventor, creating ‘The Carnegie System’ which was the first instructional hockey board used in the NHL, as well as creating games to teach sports. Herb Carnegie died on March 9, 2012 at the age of 92. He was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the Builder Category in 2022.
 
Both of these men, while deceased, are the leaders we need now to see us through adversity, help us rise above limitation and carry hope in our hearts in the face of daunting, multiple measure challenges. 
 
Happy Memorial Day and may all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice be in our hearts to inspire us to be courageous contributors every day of our lives.
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