Buckner's Awkward Re-Return To Fenway [Boston Red Sox]

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NESW Sports, Sports Videos found this 4/9/2008 on deadspin.com [flag]
Today the Boston Red Sox opened up Fenway Park to begin an afternoon of self-congratulatory ring ceremonies and opening day festivities. Who would throw out the first pitch, though, was, kept secret until a couple hours before game time when the rumors started to appear online that it would be ... Bill Buckner. It's an odd moment; Buckner half-heartedly strolls out to the pitcher's mound, ... [link]

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NESW Sports Headlines 4/09/2008
Published 4/9/2008 by ethanator1088 at NESW Sports, Sports Videos
MLB Spend an Afternoon with Mike Lowell. If you can’t do it, read about it. The Mets Get Rick Rolled at Shae It would be great to bat ninth for the Brewers Deadspin brings us, Buckner returns to Fenway to a great applause and throws first pitch Awful Announcing brings us, How Taiwanese Baseball Players deal with Umps ...

Who Is The Cardinals' Buckner?
Published 4/9/2008 by Cardinal 70 at C70 At The Bat
With all the hoopla around Bill Buckner's return to Fenway yesterday, it got me thinking about who, if anyone, would hold a similar place in Cardinal Nation. ...

BILL BUCKNER FORGIVEN, DICE-K WINS
Published 4/9/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for people who are all, like, "Whatever."
... their second World Series win in four years.  Thus it was also a good time to bring out Bill Buckner, the scapegoat for the team's World Series collapse in 1986, out for the first pitch.  Buckner's ovation was resoundingly warm, and it was clear that he was exorcising demons as he approached the mound, obviously struggling to keep his composure in an unexpectedly tender moment for Boston sports fans.  Nah just kidding.  Fags! [Opening pitch video here, weepy Buckner interview post-ceremony here] 

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