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Fenway Park is scheduled to be torn down in a few years. As any Sox fan knows, its history is not one of piling up in glee on the pitcher's mound and having champagne baths in the locker room. It is one of Bill Buckner letting a routine grounder scoot through his legs...
...same time that the Bunker Hill was aflame, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, commander of the American forces fighting to capture Okinawa, was undertaking a new offensive to seize control of the island. The Americans knew the tiny speck in the Pacific was the ultimate stepping-stone to the empire's home islands. Throughout the 83-day struggle for Okinawa, Buckner's favorite toast, over bourbon and water, was "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo." Aware of this objective, his enemy, Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, prepared a war of attrition to keep Okinawa from becoming a staging ground...
...what I didn't remember was Larry Bird stealing the ball and dishing to a streaking Dennis Johnson in the 1986 NBA Eastern Conference Championships or the ball going between Bill Buckner's legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series. No, the memories that flashed through my mind had little to do with extraordinary play or unimaginable blunder. They had everything to do with family...
...crowd, "Hopefully, that number [23] going up will put thoughts that I'm coming back to rest. There's a new team, a new building, and I'm playing baseball." He filmed a Nike commercial with Spike Lee, featuring Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. and Bill Buckner, all of whom watch Jordan play and comment, "But he's trying...
...will remember Larry Bird stealing the ball against the Detroit Pistons and I will remember the ball going through Bill Buckner's legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series...