Bill Buckner
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Buckner with the Boston Red Sox
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| First baseman | |||
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Born: December 14, 1949 Vallejo, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 21, 1969, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 30, 1990, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .289 | ||
| Hits | 2,715 | ||
| Home runs | 174 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,208 | ||
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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.
Buckner is best remembered for a ground ball fielding error in the tenth inning that ended Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, a play that has since become prominently entrenched in American baseball lore.
Buckner was born in Vallejo, California and grew up in American Canyon, California. He graduated from Napa High School in 1968 after playing on the school's baseball and football teams. While playing football, he was a two-time All-Statewide receiver Coaches and also achieved All-America honors twice. Buckner was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft. His friend, Bobby Valentine, was the Dodgers' first round pick. Upon signing with the Dodgers, Buckner was assigned to the Ogden Dodgers of the Pioneer League. He also briefly attended Los Angeles Valley College, the University of Southern California and Arizona State University and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity while a farmhand with the Dodgers.
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