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Double Curse of Bill Buckner


by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 00:45 PM CDT


A week before the twenty-year anniversary, we learn that Bill Buckner was wearing a Chicago Cubs batting glove when he missed that ball down the first base line in the 1986 Mets-Red Sox game...
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For those not familiar with the situation, here's a link to the famous video (view it at the end of this post). The Boston Red Sox -- still struggling from years of the Babe Ruth curse -- were facing the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series. A few outs from finally winning, the Red Sox let the Mets come from two runs down (with two outs) to tie the game in the bottom of the tenth. Then, Mookie Wilson hit a ground ball down the first base line that went through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, allowing the winning run to score. The Mets went on to win the World Series in the seventh game.

Now, what's interesting is that the only team with a longer curse than the Red Sox are the Chicago Cubs. Well, from an ESPN story:

The poor Red Sox. It's bad enough they were saddled with one curse; they didn't know they were actually fighting two of them. No wonder Buckner missed that ball. He never had a chance.

And it gets better. An examination of Buckner's at-bats from that game shows that he was wearing dark Franklin gloves while hitting. So apparently he went out of his way to wear the white Cubs-branded glove in the field.

Sharp-memoried fans will recall that Buckner had previously played for the Cubs, but he had been traded to the Red Sox in May 1984. Why would he still be wearing Cubs gear more than two years later? More importantly, why would he tempt fate by commingling baseball's two most famously star-crossed franchises? It's like being inside a house made of kerosene-soaked newspaper and then saying, "Hmmm, it's a little dark in here. Lemme just light this match …"

Saddled with two curses. Just incredible.

I've put two videos below. The first is of the ball going through Buckner's legs. The second is a re-enactment of the full ninth inning collapse, courtesy of the old classic, RBI Baseball. Enjoy.

The real thing...

...and the re-enactment.

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