Never a "superstar", known best for a dink little seeing-eye grounder that split the wickets on a big stage, it shocks me because it just doesn't seem like his time. Age 69 from dementia.
RIP Bill Buckner
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stubs300
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RIP Billy boy! He was also a Cub from 80-84.
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Old Man with a Hat
Made me a lot of $$$$$ on that game!
I was watching that game. Hate the Mets! A shame what he will always be remembered for.
Newport 66
Old Man with a Hat
Good journeyman player. Too bad that error is what he'll remembered for.
RIP Bill.......
RIP Bill.......
Like many of you i also watched that game live and unfortunately LOST money on that series.
My deal with Buckner is because he was an age contemporary of mine.
I was not 30 yet in 1986, but guys I went to HS and college with were playing in the MLB, NFL, and NBA at that time. Heck I could still two-hand slam dunk a basketball in 1986 vs. being the land-based vehicle I am now. Its the year my oldest daughter was born. I remember it very well.
Yep, no one should be defined by one knuckeheaded thing. Depending on the stage on which we "perform", that can in fact happen in front of millions of people.
Pro athletes, CEO's, big time college coaches, et. alia, get paid handsomely, however, to hoist the trophy, or eat sh*t if they screw the pooch in a big time situation/game (Jim Marshall, Leon Lett, Tony Romo, Jim Joyce, etc).
It could also happen in real world where many of us live. I know the boneheaded stuff I have done that I wish nobody had witnessed, let alone the few dozen who did.
Guess I am feeling my mortality and that dementia taking somebody in my age cohort goes this way though ... thats a really bad way to go out. What gets stolen from the person ... well you know.
All the best to his and other families coping with that "thief of souls".
My deal with Buckner is because he was an age contemporary of mine.
I was not 30 yet in 1986, but guys I went to HS and college with were playing in the MLB, NFL, and NBA at that time. Heck I could still two-hand slam dunk a basketball in 1986 vs. being the land-based vehicle I am now. Its the year my oldest daughter was born. I remember it very well.
Yep, no one should be defined by one knuckeheaded thing. Depending on the stage on which we "perform", that can in fact happen in front of millions of people.
Pro athletes, CEO's, big time college coaches, et. alia, get paid handsomely, however, to hoist the trophy, or eat sh*t if they screw the pooch in a big time situation/game (Jim Marshall, Leon Lett, Tony Romo, Jim Joyce, etc).
It could also happen in real world where many of us live. I know the boneheaded stuff I have done that I wish nobody had witnessed, let alone the few dozen who did.
Guess I am feeling my mortality and that dementia taking somebody in my age cohort goes this way though ... thats a really bad way to go out. What gets stolen from the person ... well you know.
All the best to his and other families coping with that "thief of souls".
RIP Billy
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I was outside Fenway Park that night. Seemed like last week....
R. I. P. Billy.
R. I. P. Billy.
johnson
New Member
glad he and the sox faithful made peace in 08
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