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Post by chiyankee on May 27, 2019 12:59:28 GMT -5
Bill Buckner has passed away. He should be known for much more than having a ball go through his legs, he was an excellent ball player.
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Post by inger on May 27, 2019 13:17:23 GMT -5
Unusual numbers. Only walked as many as 40 times in a season once. Never fanned more than 38 times in a season. Walked 450 times and fanned 453 times in his 22 year career.
He led his league in doubles twice, and was able to drive in over 100 runs three times without ever hitting more than 18 HR in a season...
Will we ever see anyone with that slashing hitting style again?...
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Post by chiyankee on May 27, 2019 13:34:45 GMT -5
Unusual numbers. Only walked as many as 40 times in a season once. Never fanned more than 38 times in a season. Walked 450 times and fanned 453 times in his 22 year career. He led his league in doubles twice, and was able to drive in over 100 runs three times without ever hitting more than 18 HR in a season... Will we ever see anyone with that slashing hitting style again?... I was thinking LeMahieu, but even he strikes out more than that. |
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Post by inger on May 27, 2019 13:38:10 GMT -5
DJLM May indeed be the modern equivalent... I miss having those guys around. Buckner, Carew, Madlock, Marty Alou, and Mattingly...They were all about contact and didn’t care if they hit HR...
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Post by rizzuto on May 27, 2019 13:39:14 GMT -5
Unusual numbers. Only walked as many as 40 times in a season once. Never fanned more than 38 times in a season. Walked 450 times and fanned 453 times in his 22 year career. He led his league in doubles twice, and was able to drive in over 100 runs three times without ever hitting more than 18 HR in a season... Will we ever see anyone with that slashing hitting style again?... I was thinking LeMahieu, but even he strikes out more than that. Andrelton Simmons is usually the toughest to K. |
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Post by inger on May 27, 2019 13:39:15 GMT -5
DJLM:
I’ve got glove enough for two...
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Post by inger on May 27, 2019 13:40:13 GMT -5
I was thinking LeMahieu, but even he strikes out more than that. Andrelton Simmons is usually the toughest to K. Good catch, and he hits for average now, too... |
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Post by chiyankee on May 27, 2019 13:59:18 GMT -5
More Buckner data:
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Post by michcusejoe5 on May 27, 2019 18:35:25 GMT -5
Whats so great about Mookie anyways? All he did was hit a shitty ground ball.
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Post by greatfatness on May 27, 2019 19:02:45 GMT -5
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Post by inger on May 27, 2019 21:51:49 GMT -5
I remember being ashamed of myself when I struck out, which wasn’t often...
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Post by pippsheadache on May 28, 2019 6:59:37 GMT -5
Bill Buckner was part of a great influx of talent that the Dodgers developed over a five or six year period in the late 60s to the early 70s. Some worked out, some had a few flashes, but the talent was there. Besides Buckner, during that period they brought up Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Ron Cey, Bill Russell, Steve Yeager, Joe Ferguson, Davey Lopes, Charlie Hough, Doug Rau, Willie Crawford, Bill Singer, Bobby Valentine, Von Joshua, Billy Grabarkewitz, Sandy Vance just off the top of my head.
BTW, don't laugh at Bobby Valentine. I know he was an awful manager and seems like an annoying person, but in terms of talent he was regrded right near the top of that list. He broke his ankle early on and was unable to really recover.
I vividly remember watching that infamous Buckner game. Even at the time it seemed odd that Sox manager John McNamara left Buckner at first with a two-run lead in the tenth inning, when all year long he had been replacing him with Dave Stapleton in those situations. That was back in the wonderful pre-2004 era when Boston always did the wrong thing in the big moments.
Before his ankle injuries, Buckner was actually pretty fast -- he had seasons with 31 and 28 stolen bases -- and was a decent defensive player. He is 66th on the all time hits list. Like Fred Merkel almost 80 years before him, he was a fine player who is forever associated with one nightmare moment that he should never have been in. A classic member of the Hall of Very Good.
RIP, Bill Buckner.
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Post by inger on May 28, 2019 9:54:49 GMT -5
‘‘‘Tis far, far better to have allowed that ball to have trickled through your legs than it would be to have been standing elsewhere when the ball was struck.
Nah. That’s not Shakespeare, but it is life. Buckner left us at 69. Too young. A fellow That you to work for me some twenty or so years ago passed away yesterday. He was 65 and two weeks younger than me.
I have to wonder why it’s me and not him that’s been privileged with extra time to try to solve this great puzzle. Ben had leukemia for about 12-15 years. I last saw him about two years ago when we went back to visit in MD, and he said the disease was in remission and he was feeling great...
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Post by kaybli on May 28, 2019 9:59:36 GMT -5
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