Bill Buckner Lives Forever
6 min readMay 28, 2019
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.