[hobbes1]

In another interview, Backman has said that to a man the Mets expected Buckner to be out of the game for the bottom of the tenth.

That part I did know. I don't recall Bucks age, but didn't he have some sort of ankle ailment...

[BluesDuke]

Buckner had had trouble with his legs for several seasons prior to 1986, but near the end of the 1986 regular season he injured an Achilles tendon.