Walter Fenner Leonard
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Buck Leonard (left) accepts his plaque, after being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. The Rocky Mount native’s statistics, compiled in the Negro Leagues during the period that baseball was segregated, now stand alongside other MLB players. (AP Photo)