New manager Wally Backman shook hands, signed autographs and took pictures with Buffalo Bisons fans Thursday night in the Hyatt Regency just as the team planned. But Backman certainly did it all with a heavy heart. Less than two hours before the team's Winter Hot Stove function got fired up, Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter passed away from brain cancer. Backman, of course, was the second baseman of the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets and Carter was his close friend and the team's heart-and-soul catcher.
Baseball from infamous Buckner play sold for $418k DALLAS -- The baseball that rolled through the legs of Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in the 1986 World Series was sold at auction Friday for $418,250.
Troy Loney knows all about Bill Buckner, the Boston Red Sox first baseman who ended up the scapegoat when the Mets won the 1986 World Series after his botched play. Loney believed he might become the Pittsburgh equivalent after he took a five-minute major for high-sticking Minnesota defenseman Mark Tinordi in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.
If you look up Wally Backman on YouTube, you'll find hilarious footage that gives you a glimpse of some of what you might see this summer in Coca-Cola Field. After two years out of baseball, Backman became the manager of an independent league team in 2007 called the South Georgia Peanuts. Cameras rolled that summer for a reality show about life in the minors and the star was Backman, the former second baseman on the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets.
On the campaign plane, as Kerry waxed rhapsodic on the thrills of adversity, Healy watched the candidate relive one of New England's historic moments: "At one point he crouched in the plane's aisle to imitate former Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's stance as the baseball rolled through his legs in the infamous sixth game of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets.
Just like he was as a .320 hitter for the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets, Wally Backman is a scrapper as a manager who expects to win every year. That's a good thing for the Buffalo Bisons, who are expecting the New York Mets to put a winner in town next season or they might be looking elsewhere for a new parent in 2013. Backman knocked it out of the park with an energetic introductory press conference Thursday as the Mets and Bisons made it official that he is getting promoted from Double-A Binghamton to head the Herd in 2012.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Years before he helped the New York Mets beat Boston in the 1986 World Series, Gary Carter wore a Red Sox uniform. The Baseball Hall of Famer pitched and played shortstop for the Red Sox team for his Little League in West Fullerton, Calif. It wasn't until his senior year in high school that a scout suggested he play catcher.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- So you're bummed at the way Team USA shriveled Sunday night against Japan, a 9-4 loss that punctured once and for all the myth of American superiority in baseball. The game has caught up with us on a global level, that much is obvious. If the U.S. ever is going to win the WBC, it needs more intelligent roster selection, better players on the field in elimination games and, certainly, better managing. Was Davey Johnson's neuro-processor always this slow? He made so many bad (and soft) decisions it's hard to believe this is the same manager who had the guts to double-switch Darryl Strawberry out of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
BOSTON -- Daisuke Matsuzaka allowed four hits in 6 2/3 innings and the Boston Red Sox returned from their three-country trip of nearly 16,000 miles to beat the winless Detroit Tigers 5-0 on Tuesday. The Red Sox received their World Series rings before the game. Bill Buckner, a goat of the 1986 World Series collapse that helped extend the team's title drought until 2004, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
PHILADELPHIA - David Wright homered, Carlos Delgado knocked in three runs and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-3 Wednesday night for their seventh straight win. The NL East-leading Mets (41-23) have won nine of 11 and hold a commanding 81/2-game lead over the bumbling Phillies in second place. Only two teams in Mets history reached 40 wins faster: the 1986 World Series champions and the 1988 team that lost in the league championship series.
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