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...greater error than Bill Buckner (well, maybe not). The next day, Tarek called me and assigned me a field hockey game...
...they made good use of it. In fact, all in all, Harvard put together a performance with which the usual Red Sox occupants could well identify: they played well enough to win, only to lose in the end off some bad breaks (somewhere, Bill Buckner is smiling...
Despite the hero worship reflected in such purchases, infamy was also a big draw. Last year actor Charlie Sheen paid $93,500 for the ball that dribbled through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in a misplay that ultimately cost Boston the 1986 World Series. At last month's sale, Leland's auctioned off Buckner's Series runner-up ring accompanied by a note: "Hope you enjoy my ring. The nightmare of 1986 is over! I'm off the hook. Your pal, Bill Buckner." Ring and note brought an astonishing $33,000. Even Pete Rose's good...
...Incidentally, which qualifies as the greater World Series natural disaster: San Francisco falling apart in 1989, or Bill Buckner's rumbling glove...
...horrors unfolded in the bottom half of the inning, the place was silent. And when Vin Scully exclaimed to the nation that the ball had gone through Buckner's legs, it got ugly. My brother cursed. My dad threw things and I think attacked the television. I was in shock...