Bill Buckner
William Joseph Buckner was an American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball for five teams from 1969 through 1990, including the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Boston Red Sox. Buckner won the National League batting title with a. 324 mark in 1980. He is the 21st player in MLB history to play in four decades, ending his career with 2,715 hits and 498 doubles.
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William Joseph Buckner was an American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball for five teams from 1969 through 1990, including the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Boston Red Sox. Buckner won the National League batting title with a. 324 mark in 1980. He was named to the All-Star team in 1981 as he led the major leagues in doubles. He retired with the fourth-most assists by a first baseman in major league history, despite not playing the position regularly until he was 27 years old. After retiring as a player, he became a real estate developer in Idaho, and later coached a number of Minor League Baseball teams before leaving baseball in 2014. He is the 21st player in MLB history to play in four decades, ending his career with 2,715 hits and 498 doubles, having batted over. 300 seven times with three seasons of 100 runs batted in. Never striking out 40 times in a season, he finished with the fifth-lowest strikeout rate among players whose careers began after 1950. His tenth-inning error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets remains one of the most memorable plays in baseball history. He and his brothers Bob and Jim, and Jim’s twin sister Jan, were raised by their parents, Leonard and Marie Katherine Buckner; his father died in 1966, when Bill was a teenager. At age 18, Buckner made his professional debut playing with the Ogden Dodgers of the Rookie Pioneer League in 1968, hitting 344 home runs and 44 RBI in 64 games.
He also briefly attended Los Angeles Valley College, USC and Arizona State University. In 1969, he played with four Dodger teams, as well as the Spokane Indians and the Lasorda Lasordas. While playing for the Dodgers, he was teammates with Steve Garvey, who was also playing in their first professional seasons. In the late 1970s he was called up to the Dodgers’ farm system once again, and was once again called up in late 1980s. He later played for the Albuquerque Dodgers and the Class AA Albuquerque Dodgers, then the Class AAA Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League. He died in a car accident in 2010, at the age of 69. He had previously played in the California Angels, Kansas City Royals, and a second stint with the Red Sox, among other teams. His friend Bobby Valentine was the Dodgers’ first-round pick in the 1968 Major League baseball draft; his friend was the Angels’first-round picks in the 1969 and 1970 seasons. He won two state titles as a football player at Napa High School, and also achieved All-America honors twice as a receiver and also was a two-time All-State receiver for the school’s baseball team. His brother Bob and his twin sister, Jim, were also playing baseball for the California Dodgers when he was selected by the Dodgers in the second round of the 1968 MLB draft.
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