Bill Buckner, a longtime baseball star who spoofed his crucial late-career World Series error on Curb Your Enthusiasm, died today. He was 69. Sportswriter Jeremy Schaap tweeted that Buckner’s widow Jody said had been suffering from Lewy body dementia.
Buckner played for five teams during his 22-year career, amassing 2,715 hits, but sadly is best remembered for his error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series that led to the New York Mets coming back to beat the Boston Red Sox in the 10th inning. The Mets went on to win Game 7 and the championship. Decades later, Buckner would make a life-saving play as the hero of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Buckner’s Red Sox were leading 5-3 going into the bottom of the tenth inning at Shea Stadium on October 25, 1986, and were three outs away from the franchise’s first World Series win since 1918. The Sox got the first two...
Buckner played for five teams during his 22-year career, amassing 2,715 hits, but sadly is best remembered for his error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series that led to the New York Mets coming back to beat the Boston Red Sox in the 10th inning. The Mets went on to win Game 7 and the championship. Decades later, Buckner would make a life-saving play as the hero of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Buckner’s Red Sox were leading 5-3 going into the bottom of the tenth inning at Shea Stadium on October 25, 1986, and were three outs away from the franchise’s first World Series win since 1918. The Sox got the first two...
- 5/27/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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