Amazing Mark Fidrych vs the New York Yankees, June, 1976. While Detroit was already in love with "The Bird", he exploded onto the National scene that night.
Game takes 2 hours, including commercials and post game interviews. Sadly, The Bird tore his rotator cuff early the next year. It wasn't repaired until 1985. He was done.
Also as mentioned, that's Bill Buckner in left trying to climb the fence to get the ball.
Dude is part of two all time famous plays for coming CLOSE to getting his glove on the ball.
Poor Bill. I'm a Mets fan and even I think he gets a bum rap on that one. The game was tied. Best case, Buckner makes the play and the game continues. More realistic, Mookie beats him anyway and you have Knight at third with 2 outs. More than that, it was only Game 6. All this did was force Game 7.When told the ball that went through his wickets in Game 6 auctioned for more than $400k, Billy Buck said, "If I'd have known that I woulda chased after it."
Poor Bill. I'm a Mets fan and even I think he gets a bum rap on that one. The game was tied. Best case, Buckner makes the play and the game continues. More realistic, Mookie beats him anyway and you have Knight at third with 2 outs. More than that, it was only Game 6. All this did was force Game 7.
The goat of that series should be Calvin Schiraldi. He's the one that blew the lead (AND the Game 7 lead that everyone forgets), or even Bob Stanley since he's the one that threw the wild pitch that tied the game. Buckner made a mistake, but he was the scapegoat for a lot of failures.
Glad Buckner got some closure before he passed.
I met Bill Buckner at a Spring Training game in AZ about 4 years ago. Knowing that he’d probably received thousands of [ Finebaum ]ty comments over his life, I recognized him and said “hey it’s a pleasure to meet you i loved your work on Curb Your Enthusiasm”. He laughed and I could tell he was relieved I wasn’t some drunk asshoe with a [ Finebaum ]ty comment... Just some drunk asshoe.Yes to all that. No way Buckner or Stanley beat Wilson to the bag. Buckner should not have even been on the field, much less playing that far off first. McNamara must take much of the blame.
I met Billy Buck in Boise where he went to live a quiet life in real estate development. He had a secluded place up in the foothills. He gave us Little League coaches a clinic one day on how to teach hitting. Opened my eyes big time and improved my son's bat. He was a good guy.
The Natural is on MLBGOD I miss baseball.
Just finished it. Bobby picked a winner again.The Natural is on MLB
I watched it. Even though the homerun scenes are hokie. I had forgotten all the stars besides Redford in that movie, but I had not seen it since it came out in the theater ('83?) And whatever they used for Wrigley Field was not very close.
Eight Men Out was a good baseball flick. And 61.
I think they both are overrated. Love Eight Men Out though. Pretty accurate as for as history goes too.saw the movie and then read the book
this is one of those instances for me that the book wasn't better, in fact if i had read the book first i would not have gone to the theater to see the movie
I think they both are overrated. Love Eight Men Out though. Pretty accurate as for as history goes too.
agree, not a huge fan of the overly sappy fictional stories and I really hate when a movie tries to do that with a real story (i.e. remember the titans)
the book was a beating to me and i was okay with the cheese factor of the movie