Steve Cohen details how he came to own the Bill Buckner baseball

“Little roller up along first, behind the bag, it gets through Buckner, here comes Knight and the Mets win it!”

Vin Scully’s call of Mookie Wilson’s roller up the first-base line that gave the Mets an improbable win against Boston in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series provides the soundtrack of one of the most incredible moments in Mets history.

The 1986 Mets, of course, went on to win the franchise’s second World Series in Game 7, but the ball that squibbed past Bill Buckner will forever live in Mets lore.

Whatever happened to the ball?

Incredibly, it now belongs to the team’s new owner, Steve Cohen.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with SNY’s Steve Gelbs on Mets Hot Stove, Cohen was asked if there was one piece of Mets memorabilia he wished he could possess, and it turns out he already had a great answer.

“This is the Buckner ball,” Cohen said after he went to retrieve it. “I know I’ve been talking to Twitter about it, and I wanted to wait for the right moment, but this is the ball that Mookie hit through Buckner’s legs.

“Now this was given to Arthur Richman, who I think was the travel secretary. I’m not sure how he ended up with the ball. ‘The ball won it for us,’ it says, ‘Mookie Wilson, 10/25/86.’ It’s signed by Mookie, but not by Buckner.”

Cohen explained that he purchased the ball, which at one point he believes was owned by actor Charlie Sheen, via auction, but now he says he wants to house the ball in the Mets Hall of Fame & Museum at Citi Field.

“Funny story on this,” Cohen explained. “Andy Cohen, who is working with me with the Mets, came to me and said this ball’s coming for sale, and actually I think it was owned by Charlie Sheen. And I said ‘Great, how much is it?’ and they said like $100,000-$150,000,’ and I said ‘Alright, I’ll do it.’ I mean, it’s a great moment in Met history. So I go, ‘Buy it!’ and he comes back and goes ‘You bought it.’ I said ‘Cool, fantastic, what did you pay?’ He goes ‘$410,000.’ I go, ‘I thought you said it was $100,000-$150,000?’ I was not happy, but I’m happy now.

“What I’m going to do is I’m going to put it in the Met Museum.”

After Cohen spoke about owning the Buckner ball, others in possession of other artifacts from the game, including Bucker's glove and Wilson's cleats, shared that they'd love to put all the pieces together for Mets fans to see at once.