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They said it was the "Curse of the Bambino". They said "the criminals acquired". Now one of baseball's all-time good guys, NY Mets story Mookie Wilson, explains to his aspect of the storyplot - from the ground ball through Expenses Buckner's legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Game 6 rally contrary to the Boston Red Sox to the go up and fall of your team that boasted such outsize personalities as Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, and Davey Johnson. Growing up in rural SC in the 1960s, Mookie required to heart the lessons of his daddy, a diligent sharecropper who believed in the abiding electric power of trust - and taught his son the game that would change his life. When Mookie arrived in Shea Stadium in 1980, the Mets were a perennial cellar-dweller overshadowed by the crosstown Yankees. But inspired by Mookie's famous hustle, they would soon become the toast of NY. And even though their off-field antics - made famous by the contingency of the team called "the Scum Number" - eclipsed their on-field successes, Mookie stayed above the fray. In 1986, the Mets were a juggernaut, earning 108 games through the regular season and edging the Houston Astros for the National League pennant carrying out a grueling 16-inning Game Six basic. On earth Series against Boston, within an epic at-bat that led to the Buckner problem, Mookie would ignite a flames under the Mets, helping to force a Game Seven. NY would win to be World Champions. In an time when role models in activities were hard to come by, some tarnished by their own hubris and greed, Mookie Wilson continued to be the exemption: a guy of humility and honor when it mattered the most.
