[xp38]

I checked my media guides...Buckner began as a minor league hitting instructor for the Jays in 1992 and is listed through to the 1995 guide so he would've probably gotten both the 92 and 93 rings. That's a nice thought given all the grief he has gone through.

[BluesDuke]

I agree. He was a good ballplayer, hard nosed without careening over the line to recklessness, and was actually one of the better clutch hitters of the first half of the 1980s. (The only man in baseball to hit for a higher average with men on base or in scoring position, or both, than Bill Buckner hit from 1980-86: Eddie Murray. Both men also hit higher in those situations than they did all around; Buckner's batting averages with men on base/in scoring position was always higher than his standard batting averages.) He seems also a nice, unpretentious man.

I wonder, now, if people remember that when Henry Aaron finally whacked his 715th career homer, in old Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, the Dodger left fielder with an idea of trying to climb the bullpen fence to catch the ball was Bill Buckner...