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MLB. Things have come full circle for Bill Buckner in Boston.
If yesterday’s ovation proved anything, it showed that Red Sox fans have gotten past Game 6.
Game 6 doesn’t need a qualifier. Every New Englander knows that Buckner, right or wrong, will always be associated with that fateful game in the 1986 World Series. A 10th-inning misplay capped a three-run Mets rally and pushed the series to a seventh game in which the Sox once again surrendered a 3-0 lead.
And before he could take the mound for yesterday’s ceremonial first pitch, he had to get past a mental block.
In Buckner’s mind, the national focus given to that one fateful moment was primarily the doing of the media.
“I really had to forgive, not the fans of Boston per se, but in my heart, I had to forgive the media for what they put me and my family through,” he continued. “I’ve done that and I’m over that and I’m just happy and I just think of the positive and happy things like Dwight Evans and the guys in the front office when I came.”
Current-day Red Sox felt sympathy.
“I’ve probably never almost been in tears for somebody else on a baseball field,” Kevin Youkilis said. “That was the most unbelievable thing. It shows how great of man Bill Buckner is. There’s not too many people who can do what he did today, and face thousands of people that booed, threatened his life and did horrific things to him.”
“That was one of the most special things I think I’ve ever seen,” added Sox skipper Terry Francona. “I caught wind of that kind of late that that was happening. To watch his reaction and to watch the fan’s reaction was very special. I was happy for him, I was thrilled for our fans, I was happy for the organization. I thought that was a very special moment. And it
actually lasted more than a moment, which I also thought was very appropriate.”
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