Baseball player Bill Buckner, known for his career as a first baseman, died Monday after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia. He was 69. “Bill fought with courage and grit as he did all things in ...

Editor's note: This column appears in the Oct. 14 issue of ESPN The Magazine. When Bill Buckner and Mookie Wilson started signing baseball items together, I nearly threw up in my mouth.

After Johnny Pesky and Ed Armbrister and Bill Buckner, how does it feel? After the crushing Game 7 losses in 1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986, after the final bitter disappointments in 1949 and 1978 and ...