‘Buckner Ball’ expected to bring $100k-plus

A baseball is mostly cork and cowhide, but every once in a while, one takes a weird hop into history. Such is the case with the “Buckner Ball.” Friday morning at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, one of baseball’s most coveted prizes – the slow ground ball that dribbled between Bill Buckner’s legs in the 1986 World Series – will be sold to a fan with a deep sense of nostalgia, and even ...