“Buffe,” Don Buford Cited In “The Godfather Part II”

A great scene in the seminal ” The Godfather Part II” : as “Michael Corleone” played by Al Pacino visits “Hyman Roth” played by Lee Strassberg.

A game, a college football tilt, contested between U.S.C. and I believe Notre Dame, is on in the back round, a thing the “Hyman Roth”/ Meyer Lansky character “likes about this country.”

A U.S.C. player gains yardage. It is Buford, as in and actually Don Buford, later a truly fine player on great Baltimore Orioles’ teams that won 3 straight American League pennants and one World Series (1969-1971).

Don Buford, in a true sports/statistical oddity scored 99 runs in all three of those seasons.

One of my favorite players, Don Buford is 86 years old.

Don Buford, pictured above.