Buck kicked the bucket

One of the things we liked to do when growing up in Palouse was go to the Washington State College baseball games.

We really didn’t care about the game, but we went to see baseball coach Buck Bailey kick the bucket.

Buck came to WSC in 1927 as an assistant football coach and became baseball coach.

He was coach for 32 years and was tragically, along with his wife, killed in an auto accident in 1965...