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	Get Fuzzy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bucky is frequently depicted as possessing an abundance of disagreeable feline traits, such as antisocial tendencies, delight in random destruction and violence, hostility, and self-centeredness.
		One memorably misguided attempt involved Bucky throwing a baseball at a ferret he took to be Fungo; the ball struck Fungo's mother and knocked her down a laundry chute.
		Bucky may mistake the mustelid for some sort of rodent, or the enmity may be as inexplicable as his desire to consume a monkey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Get_Fuzzy (3402 words)

	Bucky Dent's Homer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For fans of the Red Sox, many will remember where they were when Bucky Dent hit his homerun against the Red Sox in a one-game playoff to decide who would where the AL East divisional title crown.
		The Yankees were out of infield substitutes by the seventh inning, and had to rely on little used player Bucky Dent.
		Dent would hit the next pitch over Fenway's Green Monster in left field, and would "not know" that it was a homerun until it was signaled by the umpire.
	www.sox-hate-yankees.com /dent'shomer.html (364 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Around here, his middle name is trouble
		Dent and Mike Torrez are doing a national media conference call today, a charity promotion certain to inflict pain in New England and create excitement for the playoffs.
		The actual anniversary of Dent's homer is not until a week from tomorrow, but citizens of the Nation are already experiencing hellish flashbacks from that fateful October Monday.
		Dent was choking up a full 2 inches when he stepped in and hit the next pitch into the net.
	www.boston.com /sports/articles/2003/09/24/around_here_his_middle_name_is_trouble (864 words)

	SI.com - Baseball - Bucky Dent returns to site of famous homer - Thursday May 22, 2003 01:19 AM
		Dent was able to take a close-up look at the site of his most famous -- or infamous, depending on whom you ask -- accomplishment, sitting in the seats the Red Sox built above The Wall this winter.
		Dent sat in the new seats for the game between the Yankees and Red Sox as part of a newspaper series that returns people to the place where they made news.
		Dent joined a long list of people who broke the hearts of Red Sox fans when his pop fly settled into the screen above the Green Monster -- just 310 feet from home plate -- in an Oct. 2, 1978, playoff game to break a tie in the AL East.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2003/05/21/dent_returns_ap (505 words)

	Bucky's Dent: The '78 Playoff
		Dent's home run was the headline grabber in that one-game playoff game between the historic rivals at Fenway Park before 32,925.
		Dent's home run, like the Fisk home run in 1975, overshadowed what remained of the game.
		Their hero was once again the goat, and shortly after, rumors came out that suggested that Dent used a corked bat to hit the fabled home run.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~wff/pages/dent78.htm (412 words)

	Bucky Dent Home Run Game
		Dent lofted a 1-1 pitch from Torrez, the Boston starter, over the Green Monster—the 37-foot wall in left field—to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead.
		Dent's shocking blast was the biggest blow in a 5-4 win over Boston and put the Yankees in postseason."
		All set, Dent swung at the next pitch; the ball cleared the infield heading out to the left field wall.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197810020BOS (985 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		Dent was talking about a looping drive that cleared the formidable rampart by at least five feet and sent Chris Chambliss and Roy White scurrying home ahead of him.
		He'll get a home run." Dent switched to the new bat and gave lie to Hemingway's observation that "a man can be destroyed but not beaten." That may apply to old fishermen but not to the Yanks: they defeated the Red Sox without destroying them.
		Bucky Dent connecting for a three-run, seventh-inning home run off the Red Sox' Mike Torrez that all but clinched a division title for the Yankees in a one-game regular-season playoff at Fenway Park.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/10.02.html (877 words)

	Kodak Presents - Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments brought to you by The Sporting News
		Normally, the Yankees would have pinch hit for Dent in the seventh, but the regular second baseman, Willie Randolph, was injured and Fred Stanley, the only other available middle infielder, was going to have to replace Brian Doyle, who was pinch hit for earlier in the inning.
		Dent played for the Yankees until 1982, when he was traded during the season to Texas.
		Dent managed the Yankees for parts of two season and is in his fifth season as a coach for the Rangers.
	archive.sportingnews.com /baseball/25moments/14.html (992 words)

	Bucky Dent \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dent's unlikely homer into the screen atop Fenway Park's Green Monster in the one-game AL East playoff in 1978, helped the Yankees vanquish the Red Sox.
		Dent never had a season in which he was an average offensive player, but he was a very solid defensive shortstop.
		Dent was named the MVP of the 1978 World Series.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /players/dentbu01.php (323 words)

	Bucky Dent MLB Baseball Manager
		Bucky Dent was an Major League Baseball Manager who was born on November 25, 1951.
		Bucky Dent was born as Russell Earl and later changed his name.
		Below you will find the overall record for Bucky Dent from the teams he managed, the number of games he worked, his winning percentage, the number of wins, the total number of losses and other personal data.
	www.sportspool.com /baseball/managers/dentbu01m.php (216 words)

	Cincinnati Reds: Waiting on Bucky
		The Reds' wait for permission to interview Bucky Dent for their bench coach opening may be over within a week.
		I hadn't been able to get a clear answer about Dent's contract status from the Reds' people, but Newsday reported today that his deal with the Yankees is up Oct. 31.
		Dent remains Jerry Narron's first and only choice for the one vacancy on the staff.
	frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/spring/2005/10/waiting-on-bucky.asp (522 words)

	New York Yankees News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bucky Dent hits a home run off of the Red Sox's Mike Torrez to take the lead in the American League Playoff game at Fenway Park.
		Bucky Dent, arguably the weakest hitter in the Yankees lineup, came to the plate.
		On a 1-0 pitch, Bucky Dent fouled the ball off his foot and fell to the ground.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/nyy/news/nyy_news.jsp?ymd=20030429&content_id=295060&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp (610 words)

	Curse of the Bambino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 7th inning, Boston led 2-0, but Bucky Dent, a.240 hitter with only 4 home runs all season, hit a pop-fly home run over the Green Monster with two runners on base to secure the Yankee win.
		The most dramatic defeat for the Red Sox came in Game 6 of the 1986, when Boston was, literally, one strike from winning the Series.
		An episode of the Arthur TV show titled "The Curse of the Grebes" has Elwood City's baseball team loses its first two chances to win the world championship due to events based directly on Bucky Dent's homer and Bill Buckner's error.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino (2338 words)

	Democrat & Chronicle: Baseball's monster memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bucky Dent and Mike Torrez are linked by one of the most famous home runs in history of the Yankees and Red Sox.
		Bucky Dent’s home run off Boston’s Mike Torrez chased the Red Sox from the playoffs and gave both players a spot in major league history says columnist Scott Pitoniak.
		Which is why several years after Dent smacked the home run that earned him eternal fame in New York and eternal infamy in Boston, the pitcher who delivered the gopher ball readily agreed to join the Yankees shortstop in Florida for a re-enactment of one of the most memorable moments in baseball history.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /sports/general/0509story2_general.shtml (1424 words)

	Bucky Dent \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In 1978 Dent was the unlikely hero in the playoff game against Boston when his short three-run homer over Fenway's Green Monster, off Mike Torrez, changed the course of the game as the Yankees went on to win 5-4.
		Dent was a natural with his boyish good looks, the perfect foil for the Yankees' rough and abrasive identity.
		Dent was hitting only.169 and had lost his starting SS job to Roy Smalley.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Dent_Bucky.stm (738 words)

	The Bucky Dent Game - James Campion
		The week these words hit the newsstands it will be the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of what has now come to be known in the circle of baseball freaks as the "Bucky Dent Game".
		He was a light hitting poster-boy shortstop who had nearly quit the game a year earlier in a fit of frustrated anger, the kind young men sometimes wrestle with.
		Dent hit his third or fourth home run of the 1978 season barely clearing a mythical thirty-seven foot monolith called the Green Monster to erase a two-run deficit and allow the Yankees to win the game 5-4.
	www.jamescampion.com /chekbucky.html (1100 words)

	The Enquirer - Reds complete staff with Dent addition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narron and Dent were teammates with the Yankees in 1979.
		Dent fills out a staff that will include pitching coach Vern Ruhle, hitting coach Chris Chambliss, third base coach Mark Berry, outfield/base-running coach John Moses, bullpen coach Tom Hume and bullpen catcher Mike Stefanski.
		Dent hit one of the most famous home runs in history to lift the Yankees over the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff in 1978.
	news.enquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051105/SPT04/511050379/1078/rss12 (333 words)

	The Enquirer - Reds hire Bucky Dent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Reds got their man. They finally completed their coaching staff by hiring Bucky Dent as bench coach and infield instructor.
		Dent, 53, worked with Narron when both were with the Texas Rangers.
		Dent hit one of the most famous home runs in history to lift the Yankees over Boston in a one-game playoff in 1978.
	news.cincinnati.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/SPT04/311040007/-1/CINCI (274 words)

	Red Sox in the World Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bucky Dent hit what in most (maybe all Parks) is a routine fly ball to left, but at Friendly Fenway it was a screen shot that was heard throughout New England.
		Bucky's Fungo was the culmination of a great season gone haywire.
		Dent sent Torrez's offering high into the air and painfully we all watched as it barely cleared the Green Monster for a 3-2 lead.
	www.allsports.com /mlb/redsox/dent.htm (390 words)

	Bucky Dent Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Bucky Dent was born on Sunday, November 25, 1951, in Savannah, Georgia.
		Dent was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 1, 1973, with the Chicago White Sox.
		Did you know that you can compare Bucky Dent to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1973 American League season?
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=dentbu01 (340 words)

	The Cincinnati Post - Narron wants Dent on staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dent, 53, has spent the last three seasons as manager of the Columbus Clippers, the New York Yankees' top minor league affiliate.
		Dent's relationship with Narron dates to 1979, when the Reds' manager was a rookie catcher with the Yankees and Dent the starting shortstop.
		The previous fall, Dent had etched his name in baseball lore forever with a game-winning home run that lifted the Yankees past the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff.
	news.cincypost.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051012/SPT05/510120321/1027 (589 words)

	New York Yankees News @Yankeemania.com - Bucky Dent to manage AAA Columbus
		Not a day goes by when Bucky Dent doesn't think about his legendary home run in the 1978 American League East playoff game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
		Dent, a permanent and prominent piece of the New York-Boston rivalry, has returned to the Yankees organization, as he will manage the Triple-A Columbus Clippers in 2003.
		Royals general manager Allard Baird hired Dent to run the Omaha team, and Dent thought it was a great opportunity for him.
	www.baseballfans.net /yankees/article.php?story=20030119130100604 (291 words)

	USATODAY.com - Red Sox-Yankees: Mother of all sports rivalries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bucky Dent is scheduled to spend the weekend on a New Hampshire golf course, but his flesh and blood has a tee time inside the belly of the Fenway Park beast.
		Dent has plans in Portsmouth to throw some birdies at friends who happen to be Red Sox fans.
		Dent only felt the crowd's mind-numbing pain when he took Torrez not-so-deep in '78.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/oconnor/2005-09-29-yankees-redsox_x.htm (980 words)

	Why I Like Baseball, by Cecilia Tan
		Bucky Dent's name is synonymous with the winning ways of the Yankees franchise, thanks to a wind-blown fly ball home run that sunk the Red Sox in 1978.
		This year Dent rejoined the organization as the manager of the Triple A Columbus Clippers.
		Bucky Dent: My goal is to be a big league manager, whether it is in New York or wherever.
	www.ceciliatan.com /Entry154.html (912 words)

	SportingNews.com - Baseball : Yanks hire Merrill to manage Trenton team
		He replaced Bucky Dent as the Yankees' manager on June 6, 1990, and led New York to a 49-64 record.
		Dent was hired Tuesday to replace Merrill in Columbus.
		Bucky Dent, who spent last season with Kansas City's Omaha affiliate, agrees to manage the Columbus Clippers.
	archive.sportingnews.com /baseball/articles/20021120/440550.html (217 words)

	Beloved Bucky Dent Poster
		Someone mentioned Bucky in another thread, and his name alone brings back a flood of memories from when I was a kid.
		I still have my 1978-79 Yankees Memorabilia Book with Bucky and the rest of the team in it, including the late Thurmon Munson who's picture was outlined in fl since he had recently died in a plane crash.
		Being a Yankees fan in the late 70's (I was 7!), I remember being enamored with Bucky Dent.
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=841434 (700 words)

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