The Legacies of Bill Buckner and Bart Star. For What Shall We Live? This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, May 28th, 2019.

If your life ended this week, for what would you be remembered? Bill Buckner played 22 seasons in the major leagues, winning a batting title with the Chicago Cubs in 1980 and playing in the All-Star game the next year.

He retired with a lifetime batting average of 289, but it was a single play that defined

his career for many.

Buckner was hobbled with ankle injuries but playing first base for the Boston Red Sox

when his team was one strike from winning the World Series in 1986.

After three singles and a wild pitch, the game was tied. Then a grounder went under Buckner's

glove, leading to his team's loss. The Red Sox then lost the deciding seventh game and the series.

Buckner endured booze and even death threats from Red Sox fans. However, years later,

the city forgave and even embraced him. After Boston won the World Series in 2007,

Buckner was invited back to Fenway Park to throw out the first pitch at the team's home

opener in 2008. He received a standing ovation. Bill Buckner died yesterday at the age of 69. BART Starr, the legendary

quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, died Sunday at the age of 85. He was best known for the

1967 Ice Bowl. Fighting a windshield of minus 48 degrees, Starr led his team to victory over the

Dallas Cowboys and then won that year Super Bowl.

In other news, hiker Amanda Eller was rescued Friday after spending 17 days lost in a Hawaiian forest.

She survived on wild fruit and water from creeks.

Eller suffered a leg fracture and abrasions, but when searchers found her, she was otherwise in good shape.

While Starr and Eller are likely to be remembered for a particular event that made national

headlines, other public figures are less easily identified.

When you think of Theresa May, who announced her resignation as British Prime Minister

last Friday, you think immediately of Brexit.

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