What's the Call?

[BretMan]

Originally Posted by pob14

I know, it's not a baseball board, but I'm surprised nobody's brought up Bill Buckner yet. He used to do this All. The. Time. to protect the runner on a pitchout. He was really good at it, too; the pitchout would be two and a half feet outside, he'd throw the bat at it, and hit the damn thing. Too bad he couldn't hit normal pitches that well . . .

Buckner played 22 seasons and amassed a .289 batting average, led the league in B.A. one year and hit nearly 500 doubles. It think that he could hit the normal pitches fairly well.

It was his fielding for which Billy Bucks will be forever remembered!