Recalling Bill Buckner: E3 on Alan Greenspan
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Maybe Bill Buckner was beginning to enjoy a little peace and quiet selling cars in Idaho. Red Sox Nation had forgiven him. The Baseball Reliquary had inducted him into the Shrine of the Eternals. A new generation of baseball fans doesn’t even know his name.
But no.
Out of the blue today, on Capitol Hill of all places, Buckner became a metaphor for the worldwide financial crisis.
Testifying before Congress, Alan Greenspan was compared by Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) to Buckner. In fairness to Greenspan, the former Fed chairman wasn’t the only one charged with an error. Yarmuth also mentioned former Treasury Secretary John Snow and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox.
Greenspan, a lifelong New York Yankees fan, no doubt knew that he was being insulted.
-- Randy Harvey