* "It was twenty (-five) years ago today…"

July 24, 2008

That George Brett went ballistic when his “pine tar” home run was disallowed. The New York Times‘ Tyler Kepner returns to the scene of the “crime” in this piece.

Jim Kaplan (no relation) wrote about the 1984 season in Pine-Tarred and Feathered: A Year on the Baseball Beat (although that was just one small part of the book).

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