Moments later, Bill Buckner's error scored Knight for an amazing 6-5 win.

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Would Bill Buckner's famous bobble in the 1986 World Series have meant anything at all had his teammate, pitcher Calvin Schiraldi, not given up three straight hits beforehand?

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It was akin to the ball rolling through Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series that allowed the Mets to become world champions.

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Fortunately for Davis, who followed two older brothers into the Alabama kicking job, he didn't face the sort of Bill Buckner-like scorn that would bedevil others who faltered on the biggest stages.

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"I would call this a Bill Buckner type of study, " says Robert Califf, vice chairman for clinical research at Duke University who is leading a big study of Zetia and takes the drug himself.

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Down to their last strike, the Mets beat the Red Sox in Game 6 when Mookie Wilson's grounder went through first baseman Bill Buckner's legs for an error that allowed Ray Knight to score the winning run for a 6-5 win in 10 innings.

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Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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