By Inside Track Famous Red Sox [team stats] bobbler Bill Buckner, who coached the Brockton Rox into the Can-Am League playoffs last week, won rave reviews for his star-turn as himself on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” the other night from his players and the

I was a kid in 1986 when a ground ball dribbled under Bill Buckner's glove, through his legs, and ended the Red Sox's chance of winning the World Series. How do I know what happened? I've seen the footage and heard the play-by-play retold at least a

Bill Buckner horrible? Some new horrible baseball has yet to conceive? To set the stage: Boston and the Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the AL wild card lead. Scant weeks ago, Boston had a 487-game lead, but the Red Sox have since lost 10 of their past

Bill Buckner horrible? Some new horrible baseball has yet to conceive? To set the stage: Boston and the Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the AL wild card lead. Scant weeks ago, Boston had a 487-game lead, but the Red Sox have since lost 10 of their past

In this rarefied pantheon of world-class fumblers belongs Bill Buckner, the former first basemen for the Boston Red Sox who, as any American baseball fan with even slightly-functioning long-term memory knows, failed to field the game-ending catch of