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Paul Sullivan: Bill Buckner's legacy goes beyond the fateful grounder in the 1986 World Series

It says a lot about Bill Buckner's character that he became friends with Mookie Wilson, whose slow-rolling grounder went through Buckner's legs and altered the narrative of a stellar major-league career.

Buckner's error, the one that handed the Mets an extra-inning victory over the Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, was the first thing most of us thought about upon learning of his death Monday from Lewy body dementia.

"We developed a relationship that lasted well over 30 years," Wilson

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