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Instead of being a docudrama about the tense near-win for the Red Sox that slipped right through Bill Buckner??s hands, the film follows an afternoon in the life of New York playwright, yet devoted Sox fan, Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton, “Batman”) as he hops from cab to cab on a sunny...
...with Harvard Professor of Psychology Daniel L. Schacter, also an expert on memory. Now that they are both at Harvard, it will be easier for them to work together. “The opportunity to be near him was a big attraction,” Buckner said. Schacter praised Buckner??s combination of technical and theoretical sophistication. “He is able to integrate strength in the methodology with strength in the conceptual side,” Schacter said. In the 1990s, Buckner helped develop event-related fMRI, which allows scientists observing the brain to distinguish between...
...playoffs, the Red Sox performed penance for every “sin” they committed over the last 86 years. From Johnny Pesky’s hesitated throw in 1946 to Carlton Fisk’s much debated throwing error in 1975 to the ball through Bill Buckner??s legs in 1986, fans can move to remembering the Sox legacy, not the mistakes. Also, victory sooths the heartache caused by the Yankees—from Bucky Dent’s three-run homer in 1978 to last year’s extra-inning home run by Aaron...
...have already won the first two games, paving the way for another Red Sox collapse. And if we are so fortunate as to have the Red Sox lose—and if at all possible, lose in a way more crushing than the ball going through Buckner??s legs in 1986—then we can all look forward to next year. Boston fans will be screaming, “Yankees suck!” with even more passion. Yankees fans will scream back “1918!” And we’ll all again...
Kerry peppered his speech with lines about the recently-ended Red Sox season. His speech approached the realm of poor taste when he joked that Bill Buckner??the famed first baseman whose error lost the 1986 World Series for the Red Sox when a ball passed between his legs—tried to kill himself by laying on train tracks, only to have the locomotive pass between his legs...