Bill Buckner Baseball player

William Joseph "Bill" Buckner (born December 14, 1949) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman. He appeared in MLB from 1969 through 1990. During his career, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, California Angels, and Kansas City Royals.Buckner accumulated over 2,700 hits in his twenty-year career, won a batting title in 1980, and represented the Cubs at the All-Star Game the following season.Despite his successes, Buckner is best remembered for a fielding error during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, a play that has since become prominently entrenched in New England sports lore.

Personal facts

Bill Buckner
Birth dateDecember 14, 1949

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 21, 1969
Career endMay 30, 1990
batting sideLeft
former teams
Boston Red Sox
Los Angeles Dodgers
position
First baseman
teams
Boston Red Sox
Chicago Cubs
Kansas City Royals
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Bill Buckner on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=bucknbi01
  2. http://www.billbuckner.net
  3. http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/bucknbi01.php