Boise resident and former major-league baseball star Bill Buckner is the new manager of the Brockton (Mass.) Rox, an independent minor-league team in the Can-Am League.
Buckner, 61, is expected to sign a 2-year contract Tuesday and be formally introduced during a team function Jan. 21.
It will be the first managerial job for Buckner, who last worked in organized baseball in the 1990s as a hitting coach in the Chicago White Sox organization.
"I'm excited to spend the summer back in Massachusetts with the Rox. I've been looking forward to getting back into baseball, and it should be a great season,'' Buckner said in a team statement.
Buckner, a Treasure Valley businessman who holds an annual baseball clinic in Boise, is a former Boston Red Sox first baseman. He is famous for a Game 6 error in the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets.
Buckner moved from the Boston area to Idaho, in part, because of the media backlash of that error. In 2008, he returned to Boston and threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Red Sox home opener, part of a celebration of the franchise's 2007 World Series championship.
The Can-Am League features seven teams and plays from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend
Idaho Statesman
I hope Buckner doesn't coach the first baseman to field ground balls.
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