Word: buckners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This record can be seen as one of remarkable consistency or futility ? your pick ? but it's certainly one that marks the Red Sox as a companionable second or third banana. They've been so often near, yet always as far as the distance between Bill Buckner's feet...
Upon graduation, Lumbard had been hired by a New York City law firm, but after a chance encounter with Emory Buckner--a prosecuting attorney for the U.S. attorney office for the Southern District of New York--Lumbard decided to accept a position as an assistant in the office. This began an involvement with the public sector that would be crucial to Lumbard's career...
...city still haunted by the outcome of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, Rose audaciously invoked the name of Bill Buckner. I had to regard his subsequent fate--getting Tombstoned by Kane, a possible premonition of Sunday's events--as sweet comeuppance for his cheekiness. Comeuppance, too, for his barreling into a petrified Denny Doyle to break up a potential double play in Game Seven of the 1975 Sox-Reds World Series epic...
...society ordered Monica Lewinsky to wear a scarlet letter A, she would giggle, convinced that it stood for Awesome! DEBORAH BUCKNER Overland Park, Kans...
...this year's set-to with Cleveland seems bizarrely ordinary. A 3-1 series loss is hardly epochal enough to garner a place alongside Pesky holding the ball, Lonborg pitching on two days' rest in Game Seven, the Spaceman tossing his Leephus pitch to Tony Perez and Bill Buckner misplaying Mookie Wilson's grounder...