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Bill Buckner dead at 69
By adamg on Mon, 05/27/2019 - 2:21pm
RIP Bill Buckner. Here's a tear-inducing clip of him returning to Fenway on Opening Day in 2008 to thunderous applause. pic.twitter.com/MMW78UVk1H
— Dan O'Mara (@Dan_OMara) May 27, 2019
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Billy?
I'll miss that team...
Billy Buck
So many so-called "fans" made his life after 1986 miserable. For years, I used how people talked about Bill Buckner as a yardstick of their baseball knowledge. If they blamed him SOLELY for the loss, I knew they had no clue what they were talking about.
Suldog
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It's amazing to me
It's amazing to me that Gedman escapes blame as much as he has. Your one job as catcher is to catch, or at least get in front of the damn ball.
If you haven’t seen it, catch
If you haven’t seen it, catch the 30 For 30 on Steve Bartman. Film was made by a Red Sox fan who was saw the parallels between how Buckner was blamed and the treatment Bartman received. Excellent film, eye opening.
One difference
Unlike Buckner, State Bartman has a World Series ring.
Also, 1990
Also nobody EVER talks about how he came back to the Sox in 1990 and hit an inside the park home run, at the age of 40. Got a standing ovation from the crowd at the time. So he was forgiven by fans in 1990, then his life made miserable afterward by 'fans.'
I was watching that day (from
I was watching that day (from a bar, not at the Park). It was fantastic! I remember the well-deserved ovation.
Who was that opposing right-fielder, by the way? How badly did they hurt themselves running into the fence or Pesky's Pole or whatever they did?
The main ugly stuff was from '86 until then. That last short turn with the Sox not long before retiring shut some of them up. Another stage of peace came with some non-playing appearance. I don't remember if it was that 2008 opener (being after finally winning WS in '04, maybe some "fans" finally relaxed) or if it was some opener or old-timers' day before that (or maybe even the '99 All-Star game, though the focus of that was Ted Williams (and Buckner had not been an All-Star with the Sox))
It was
Claudell Washington. He came out of the game a couple innings later and then got traded to play out the rest of the year with the Yankees.
Scooped from Twitter,
Scooped from Twitter, reformatted for readability by me,