39 years ago today: the George Brett pinetar incident
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I think Tim McClelland is the most famous person I've met. God my life sucks.
Cool post, thanks
A lot of people don’t remember the AL President upheld the Royals’ appeal and they played a month later from that point in the game, and the Royals won.
Baseball in the 70s and 80s seemed so much cooler than it does today. Maybe it was just being a kid.
A lot of people don’t remember the AL President upheld the Royals’ appeal and they played a month later from that point in the game, and the Royals won.
Baseball in the 70s and 80s seemed so much cooler than it does today. Maybe it was just being a kid.
I think coupling baseball card collecting with baseball makes it infinitely more interesting, especially as a child.
Other thoughts to add. The video games sucked ass back then and in most parts of the country poor kids had the same opportunities as affluent kids to play well coached competitive baseball until some time in the 90s or early 00s when much of youth baseball decided to copy the hockey model. Kids who play three years of shitty rec baseball don't get into MLB the same way they can get into NBA basketball through playing pickup at the Y or into NFL football through playing two hand touch at recess.
39 years. I thought this happened a couplethree years ago.
They still make baseball cards and just like in the 80s, they printed way too much of it this year
Billy Martin will always be known as a dick.
Should have questioned the bat's legality before the AB, not after. You know he wouldn't have questioned it if Brett had made an out.
This. In ‘91 and ‘92 at the height of my card collecting, for no reason whatsoever other than having a Donruss Jose Canseco rookie card my cousin traded me for some legos, the Oakland A’s were my team and I watched them whenever they were on TV. 15 years later I’d actually go to Oakland to party with some hipsters my sister knew and it broke my heart to learn the place was a terrifying hellhole.
Second greatest cheating incident in KC Royals history. The first gave them an illegitimate WS title. RIP in peace, Rush Limbaugh, the Royals greatest fan…
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May have been a dick, but it sure as heck sounds like he was pretty smart. Bided his time until the prefect moment to protest. Genius. Can't do anything but tip your cap and give credit where it is due.
On a related note, from that awesome era of old school ballplayers...
All the rumors about Wade Boggs sheer alcoholic insanity are all true. He comes a couple times a year for a rather famous baseball event affiliated with a hotel I used to work weekend bartending gigs at. Guy gets wasted and turns into a complete animal. Jekyll and Hyde really when he slips into a full on blackout rampage and then reels it back when he apologizes the next morning. My buddy I worked for had to wrangle him in the lobby (it's your typical grand hotel space, very huge 2 story open area with flower planters and artwork and stuff) when he was running around shoving stuff over and screaming because he thought someone stole his phone in the hotel bar adjacent to the main lobby. He had actually left it behind at the famous downtown dive bar a couple hours earlier when he got day wasted. The place usually is the hotel that celebrities stay it in town so they work with them and customize room service demands. The amount of Miller Lite delivered to his room over the course of a weekend is mind blowing.
Had the cardinals been mentally tough they would have come back and won game 7.
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Don Denkinger was behind the plate for game seven. It was over before it started…Had the cardinals been mentally tough they would have come back and won game 7.
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semi-related: my first real baseball glove was a George Brett signature Wilson
I know, CSB
I know, CSB
Not being a member of the “I-shit-my-pants-twice-a-year” club, I couldn’t say!
I’ve taken a lot of shits in my 48 years, many I have been quite proud of, but that description escapes me too.
If Brett had made an out then the game would have been over anyway and there would have been no need to challenge it. But, yeah, Martin did wait until it was strategically advantageous to challenge.
I'm not even sure why Brett chose to put so much pine tar on the bat. I don't think it provided any benefit to him.
Losing a baseball game 11-0 and blaming the umpire’s strike zone is like losing a football game 49-0 and bitching that the officials missed a pass interference call.
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