When Don Buford came to Baltimore in a trade from the Chicago White Sox before the 1968 season, he wasn't sure where he was going to play. So he asked coach Earl Weaver to lobby manager Hank Bauer ...

It is early Monday morning, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But Don Buford is not standing on a stage and talking about having a dream. That’s not his style. Besides, he has already lived one ...

Married 53 years, Buford and his wife, Alescia, have three sons: Don Jr., an orthopedic surgeon and onetime Oriole farmhand; Daryl, an attorney; and Damon, who played 2-1/2 years with the Orioles ...

Williams was there to interview Don Buford, subject No. 5 out of 111 in a quixotic mission: Over the next few years, it’s Williams’ job to interview, record and catalog every living African ...

THE ORIOLES WERE right last week to remove Don Buford as director of minor league operations. The Orioles had one of the worst minor league systems in baseball during his three-year tenure ...

The lessons came in small doses, one pitch at a time. While his father, Don, coached on the field, Damon Buford would sit in the dugout next to pitcher Mike Krukow during games in Candlestick Park.

In five years with the Orioles, Don Buford batted .270, ran the bases with ferocity and helped the club reach three World Series. It’s no coincidence that, one year after Buford crashed the ...