[Tom Hufford]

For years, the guys that put the Turkin-Thompson and Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedias had Buck Hooker all confused with Cyrus Hoch, a pitcher from Buffalo who died in 1911. That's what the encyclopedias listed through the 1960s. Being from Virginia, I knew that Buck Hooker was from Richmond, and played later than 1911. About 1974, I located Buck's sister Florence in Richmond, and she filled me in on his birth and death dates, where he's buried, etc.

So, over the years, he's become one of my favorites.

Here's the last major league pay voucher he signed in 1903