"Gary was one of the happiest guys in the world every day, " Mets teammate Mookie Wilson once said.
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That game is a brutal memory in Boston maybe not as scarring as Mookie's grounder past Buckner, but as nauseating as they've had there in a generation.
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The world's view of Buckner simply froze in that instant he let Mookie Wilson's grounder get through his legs, to be replayed again and again on sports highlight shows.