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The RecordMajor League BaseballVol. I

Hall of ShameA catalog of baseball's lasting mistakes

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Hall of Shame

A field catalog of classic major-league blunders. The mistake is the subject. The person is not the punch line.

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Showing 1 of 95 · “pine tar”

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.

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