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The backstory of the Pine Tar Game
Published 7/24/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Jason) at It is about the money, stupid
Sorry I've been so bogged down today but I couldn't let the day pass without posting this, from ESPN's Tim Kurkjian: During the confusion, Brett said, "[teammate] Gaylord Perry wrestled the bat away from McClelland and started running toward the dugout. He handed it off to [teammate] Steve Renko, who said, 'What the hell am I doing with this?' He handed it off to someone else, who was running with it through the dugout, then up the runway to the clubhouse. Security people were running after him. They yelled into their radios, 'Don't let that bat out of your sight!' The policeman who guarded the visiting clubhouse wouldn't open the door for the ...

George Brett's pine tar incident turns 25 years old today
Published 7/24/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
He won a World Series, was inducted into the Hall of Fame and got a case of the hemorrhoids at the worst possible time. Still, George Brett is best known for his wonderfully bad-ass reaction to "The Pine Tar Incident," (video) which happened at Yankee Stadium on this day a quarter-century ago. As one might imagine, a number of newspapers marked the anniversary with an article. Here are the best excerpts from a few of them:    Sam Mellinger, KC Star: It was 25 years ago today that Brett used his overly pine-tarred bat to hit a home run in the ninth inning off Gossage. You ...