1986 – The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox due to Bill Buckner’s famous error in Game 6 of the World Series and go on to win the championship two days later.

It’s been 20 years since Bill Buckner’s baseball blunder bombed Boston’s chance at a World Series championship. Hopefully Boston fans have lightened up on Buckner since winning the World Series in 2004.

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Sunset Parker was in the 10th grade in Brooklyn, and remembers the scene:

The last thing was crunching over two or three entire blocks of Broadway, completely covered in tiny shards of broken glass on both sides of the street, every car crushed flat as smashed soda cans.