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Kicking the Beaneater When He's Down

Matt Welch | 10.22.2003 3:47 AM

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Grieving Boston Red Sox fans may want to know that Bill "Between the Legs" Buckner has been able to send his kid through college with money from autographing images of that fatal play in 1986. Most of the buyers are New York fans, obviously. (Link via Doug Pappas' excellent Business of Baseball weblog.)

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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