Winter Premier Auction 2021
Wed, Mar 17, 2021 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Apr 4, 2021 07:58AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 188
GEORGE BRETT AND TIM MCCLELLAND PAIR OF AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALLS (PINE TAR INCIDENT)
Unsold
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Single signed baseballs from two guy figures in the infamous "Pine Tar Game", player Goerge Brett and
The Pine Tar Incident was a controversial game in 1983 during an American League baseball game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, July 24, 1983.
With his team trailing 4–3 in the top half of the ninth inning and two out, Royals' third baseman Brett hit a two-run homer to give his team the lead. However, Yankees manager Billy Martin, who had noticed a large amount of pine tar on Brett's bat, requested that the umpires inspect his bat, most notably home plate umpire Tim McClelland. The umpires ruled that the amount of pine tar on the bat exceeded the amount allowed by rule, nullified Brett's home run, and called him out. As Brett was the third out in the ninth inning with the home team in the lead, the game ended with a Yankees win.
However, the Royals filed a protest, and American League president Lee MacPhail agreed, and ordered that the game be continued from the point of Brett's home run. The game was resumed 25 days later on August 18, and officially ended with the Royals winning 5–4.
Brett ball autograph JSA E68956
McClelland ball inscribed #36 (his umpire uniform #) Pine Tar Game 7/24/83 and comes with Beckett COA Y31694
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