On This Day: The Pine Tar Incident
On July 24, 1983, the George Brett’s ninth inning, go-ahead home run off Goose Gossage was disallowed after umpires ruled that he had too much pine tar on his bat. AL president Lee MacPhail would overturn the ruling and weeks later, after a series of court appeals by the Yankees, the game resumed, with the Royals holding on to win 5-4.
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