Bill Buckner Lives Forever

Photo by Craig Johnson, San Diego, CA (Wikimedia Commons)

I know the call by heart. I’ve known it for almost as long as I can remember.

Little roller up along first. Behind the bag, it gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight, and the Mets win it!

I know these words and I can hear them in my head in the honeyed, steady cadence of Vin Scully. Long before I ever came to know who Vin Scully was, the words have been there.