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	Buckner Blunder Back to Table of Contents . . . Errors are often embarrassing, but not many are as humiliating as Jose Canseco’s blunder in 1993 while playing for the Texas Rangers. Instead of making the out that he was expected to make, he accomplished the polar opposite: giving the opposing team a home run. On May 26, Canseco jumped up by the outfield wall to catch Carlos Martinez’s long fly ball. It would have been a tremendous catch, but instead it became a tremendous blooper highlight. Canseco miscalculated the trajectory of the ball, which bounced off his head and over the outfield fence, giving the Indians a home run. Few errors are as replayed on TV and in nightmares as Bill Buckner’s blunder during Game Six of the 1986 World Series. All the Red Sox first baseman had to do to win Boston its first Championship in sixty-eight years was field a slow grounder that Mookie Wilson hit and step on the base for the final out of the series. Instead, the ball rolled slowly between the veteran’s legs and out into shallow right field. This error allowed Wilson to get on base and, more importantly, Ray Knight to score the winning run from second base. This error led to the following day’s Game Seven in New York, which the Mets won, forever linking Buckner with the team’s eighty-nine-year championship drought, which was eventually snapped in 2004. . . . *** * *** What do you want to do now? 1) Back to Interactive Table of Contents 2) Buy autographed books, Savvy Girls shirts, Scorebooks and Quarterly Magazine from this site 3) Buy book at: 4) Send a nice e-mail to Deidre and Jackie!
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