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RIP Bill Buckner

MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Dead at 69 from dementia.

Vilified by many Red Sox fans etal for his "wicket shot" in the WS against the Mets. Years later returned to Fenway Park to a resounding standing ovation.

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Chokes are never easy.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I forgave him.

    RIP Bill.

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The thing is......he really didn't cost the Red Sox the series. They still had game 7 to win it. Overall he was a pretty good player.

    RIP Bill. o:)

  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The thing is......he really didn't cost the Red Sox the series. They still had game 7 to win it. Overall he was a pretty good player.

    RIP Bill. o:)

    Very true. And Schiraldi and Stanley were just as instrumental in that loss as Buckner was, maybe even more so. After all, the game was already tied because of Stanley throwing the ball to the backstop in that same at bat. Plus, Mookie insists he would have beaten Buckner to the bag even if he had fielded the ball cleanly.



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  • ernie11ernie11 Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good player for a long time.

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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A terrible disease. RIP.

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,253 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I never understood the hate he received. It's not as if he didn't try to make the play, his knees wouldn't allow it. RIP mr Buckner.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,106 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ted Williams thought highly of Buckner's talent as a hitter and so do I.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    it is sad, very sad, that a life is remembered by most everyone because of one negative moment. considering all the positive things he did, the joy he brought to fans and the help he no doubt gave to countless other players strikes me as a better tribute. coincidentally, we discuss in threads from time to time about the current state of the game where the HR is what everyone swings for and players don't mind striking out. not Bill Buckner, he was from another era it seems. one report I watched said that he never struck-out more than 39 times in an entire season.

    some players get close to that in a calendar month!!! remarkable. RIP BB, gone way too soon, his passing is our loss. :'(

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    I never understood the hate he received. It's not as if he didn't try to make the play, his knees wouldn't allow it. RIP mr Buckner.

    Agreed. John McNamara is the one the hate should be directed at; no competent manager would have had Buckner in the field that late in a game that important. That's why Dave Stapleton was on the roster; to play first base when it really mattered.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:

    @craig44 said:
    I never understood the hate he received. It's not as if he didn't try to make the play, his knees wouldn't allow it. RIP mr Buckner.

    Agreed. John McNamara is the one the hate should be directed at; no competent manager would have had Buckner in the field that late in a game that important. That's why Dave Stapleton was on the roster; to play first base when it really mattered.

    Totally agree. And as I said before the pitchers gave up the lead in game 6...….plus they still had game 7 to win it.

    Totally unfair to Buckner and his family.

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