Pine tar and The Police: New York's stadiums part of pop culture lore
This was late in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 1983. In those years, Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium rarely had days where both were in use.
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This was late in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 1983. In those years, Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium rarely had days where both were in use.
KC Royals third baseman George Brett's iconic reaction is nor the end of the Pine Tar Incident.
Today’s Kansas City Royals don’t have a player who was so much as born by the time of George Brett’s 1983 tirade in 1983. But KC players still learn a lot of from the iconic moment.
Its nice to have an easy reference point that things could always be a little crazier, a little zanier, a little nuttier. It's nice to remember 1973.
Student swapping across public flagships is America’s most expensive game of musical chairs, Ryan Craig writes. As we enter June, sports fans will soon stop hyperventilating. Months of Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs will mercifully yield champions. After that, it’s just baseball, the only professional sport that runs at summer pace.