The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York

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The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy

The New York Times bestsellerâ€”â€œa rollicking accountâ€ (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports historyâ€™s most absurd and entertaining controversies.

On July 24, 1983, during the finale of a heated four-game series between the dynastic New York Yankees and small-town Kansas City Royals, umpires nullified a go-ahead home run based on an obscure rule, when Yankees manager Billy Martin pointed out an illegal amount of pine tarâ€”the sticky substance used for a better gripâ€”on Royals third baseman George Brettâ€™s bat. Brett wildly charged out of the dugout and chaos ensued. The call temporarily cost the Royals the game, but the decision was eventually overturned, resulting in a resumption of the game several weeks later that created its own hysteria. The game was a watershed moment, marking a change in the sport, where benign cheating tactics like spitballs, Superball bats, and a couple extra inches of tar on an ash bat, gave way to era of soaring salaries, labor strikes, and rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs.

In The Pine Tar Game acclaimed sports writer Filip Bondy paints a portrait of the Yankees and Royals of that era, replete with bad actors, phenomenal athletes, and plenty of yelling. Players and club officials, like Brett, Goose Gossage, Willie Randolph, Ron Guidry, Sparky Lyle, David Cone, and John Schuerholz, offer fresh commentary on the events and their take on the subsequent postseason rivalry. â€œA sticky moment milked for all its nutty, head-shaking gloryâ€ (Sports Illustrated), The Pine Tar Game examines a more innocent time in professional sports, and the shifting tide that resulted in todayâ€™s modern iteration of baseball.

Some watchers of the Royalsâ€™ 2015 World Series win over New Yorkâ€™s â€œother baseball team,â€ the Mets, may see it as sweet revenge for a bygone era of talent flow and umpire calls favoring New York.

Country	USA
Author	Filip Bondy
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781476777191
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2015-07-21
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2015-07-21
Studio	Scribner

The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy

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