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...Nationals? I had forsworn baseball fandom when Bill Buckner let the ball roll through his legs and the Red Sox blew Game 6. When my son did his mandatory second-grade family essay, he called his one-pager "My Dad and Baseball" and wrote, "But after the 1986 World Series he decided he'd had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't Heavy, It's My Team | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...bench and diamond--brings new detail to baseball's most dramatic postseason. Sport contests can lose their luster once they wrap. But this lively DVD, narrated by Boston-bred actor Denis Leary, captures the suspense, and chats with manager Terry Francona and former Sox like Pudge Fisk and Bill Buckner exorcise the ghosts all over again. --By David Thigpen

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports: From Cursed To First In 86 Years | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

John Kerry, on the other hand, alleges to be a Red Sox fan, and once claimed that he was “30 yards away” from Bill Buckner during the infamous 1986 collapse at Shea Stadium in the World Series…and at a Boston banquet on the same night. Really, John? Actually, I guess that’s really somewhat believable. I’ve taken the Fung-Wah bus before...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Sports Benefit From Nov. Politics | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...said: ?Everything-67, 75, 86-it was all worth it.? How often in life do we get to look back at our grueling moments of pain and anguish and have them make sense? But in this World Series race the enemies had been defeated and everyone from Bill Buckner to, well, Bill Buckner had been vindicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeping Beauty | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

According to fellow Sox fan and Newton South grad Matthew L. Ranen ’89, he and Robbins immediately left the room following the Buckner muff without saying a word to anyone else, or pretty much to each other, except for a couple of swear words now and again...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gettin' Hurt '80s Style | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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