Player

Goose Gossage

2 entries · 1983–1984

George Brett's pine-tar bat on display at the Henry Ford Museum in 2006, beside Mark McGwire's body armor. The photograph is of the bat years later, not the July 24, 1983 at-bat.

Rules & Quirks1983

The Pine Tar Game

George Brett's go-ahead homer was taken off the board because there was too much pine tar on the bat. The league president put the homer back.

Kansas City Royals · New York Yankees

Goose Gossage in August 2007. This is not the pitch to Kirk Gibson in Game 5 of the 1984 World Series.

Pitching Disasters1984

Gossage Pitches to Gibson

In the eighth inning of the 1984 World Series, Dick Williams wanted Goose Gossage to walk Kirk Gibson. Gossage talked him out of it. Gibson hit a three-run homer.

Detroit Tigers · San Diego Padres