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 moment.
Wilson said he was “saddened” to hear of Buckner’s death, the 69-year-old baseball icon losing his battle to Lewy Body Dementia on Monday.
“We had developed a friendship that lasted well over 30 years,” Wilson said in a statement. “I felt badly for some of the things he went through. Bill was a great great baseball player whose legacy should not be defined by one play.