Former MLB players Mookie Wilson (left) and Bill Buckner take the field for the opening ceremonies of the Waverider Tournament on Sunday at The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach. Matt Silfer For The ...

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Between them, Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner played over 4,000 games in Major League Baseball. Still, it is one play, from one game, that is the defining moment for both careers.

The play, now 32 years old, would link Bill Buckner and Mookie Wilson forever, though the Mets’ World Series hero doesn’t want Buckner’s lasting legacy to be defined by that one moment. A “saddened” ...

The ball rolled off Mookie’s bat and through Buckner’s legs, helping form an incredible friendship. Mets legend Mookie Wilson and Red Sox goat Bill Buckner remain on opposite sides of history for ...

An auction to share dinner with Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner ended with a strikeout. Although three bidders expressed an interest in watching World Series Game 5 with the two baseball greats, ...

Here's a relationship that probably could not have been predicted. Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner, the hero and goat of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and Red Sox, are now close friends, ...

Bill Buckner and Mookie Wilson will always be linked with one another, so MLB took advantage of the two “catching up” years after one of the most iconic moments in sports. It’s been 30 years since ...

Bill Buckner, a sweet-swinging left-handed batter who amassed more than 2,700 hits in a career that spanned four decades but ...

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Two men, both in their 60s, sit on a park bench chatting with the languid ease of longtime friends, occasionally breaking into fits of laughter. They could be any pair of suburban ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Bill Buckner became the punching bag for Red Sox Nation after botching that little roller up along first in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. But believe it or not, now he's ...