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Walter Fenner Leonard - People

Baseball player, born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA. As a first baseman for the Homestead Grays (1934–50), he was known as the ‘Lou Gehrig’ of the black baseball leagues. Teamed with Josh Gibson, he helped the Grays win the Negro National League pennant nine years in a row (1937–45). A solid ·340 hitter with power, he was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1972.

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The male of various species of animal, including: some species of deer — see also blackbuck, Buckskin (leather) rabbits squirrels Tyrannosaurus rex (the term buck was first used for a male Tyrannosaurus rex in the Jurassic Park series and is currently gaining popularity) A slang term for: African Antelope a human male (usually a sexually adventurous 'boy') a dollar or similar national currencies (particularly in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and United States) a repetition of an old joke, story, or fact, especially by email a chicken (bucker), from the sound a chicken makes a one-hit shotgun blast to the chest a slight punch in the arm A marker or button that indicates the dealer in the card game Poker Buck, the main character in The Call of the Wild Buck (band) A buck converter is a type of electronics power supply.

People

Real

Buck Freeman Carrie Buck eugenics Dudley Buck, U.S. composer (1839-1909) Frank Buck, an animal collector Frank Buck, a Tennessee politician James Buchanan the fifteenth President of the United States was nicknamed Buck Pearl S. Buck, American novelist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser Jack Buck, St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame broadcaster

Fictional

Buck is the name of a main charachter in the Video Game 187 Ride or Die Buck is the name of Huck Finn's friend. Cameron "Buck" Williams is a character in the Left Behind series Frank Buck, American big game hunter and general hero in colonial Malaysia, played by Bruce Boxleitner in TV action series Bring 'm Back Alive, loosely based on the above real character
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