HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!

[KLAH316]

[grayhawk]

Can't remember where I read it, but the umpires for that game all signed affidavits that both runners touched each base on the home run.  Since the crew for the continuation of the game was different, there was a concern that Billy Martin would appeal a missed base and cause a stink.  If anyone would have done it, it would have been Martin.

[BRUMP]

Can't remember where I read it, but the umpires for that game all signed affidavits that both runners touched each base on the home run.  Since the crew for the continuation of the game was different, there was a concern that Billy Martin would appeal a missed base and cause a stink.  If anyone would have done it, it would have been Martin.

 

 

what he did do as an up yours to Lee MacPhail (AL Pres who overturned call) is put out a BS lineup that included Ron Guidry at F4

[LMSANS]

Can't remember where I read it, but the umpires for that game all signed affidavits that both runners touched each base on the home run.  Since the crew for the continuation of the game was different, there was a concern that Billy Martin would appeal a missed base and cause a stink.  If anyone would have done it, it would have been Martin.

That's a Jim Evans story...I forget which crew he was with.

[BigUmpire]

I think this is recounted in either Ken Kaiser or Bruse Webers book.

[Kevin_K]

Can't remember where I read it, but the umpires for that game all signed affidavits that both runners touched each base on the home run.  Since the crew for the continuation of the game was different, there was a concern that Billy Martin would appeal a missed base and cause a stink.  If anyone would have done it, it would have been Martin.

 

It's in As They See "Em. I just finished it last week. 

[dumbdumb]

From wikipedia

 

^{First crew. Tim McClelland (HP), Drew Coble (1B), Joe Brinkman (2B), Nick Bremigan (3B)}

2nd Crew: George Maloney (HP), Tim Welke (1B), Dave Phillips (2B), Rick Reed (3B).

 

Also, what is that lawsuit about the kid getting hit in the face by a ball and the team taking the possible illegal bat to the car. Gaylord Perry took the bat from this game and gave it to the batboy to take and hide in the clubhouse but security chased him into the dugout to get the bat.

    Game day situation

On August 18 (a scheduled off day for both teams), the game was resumed from the point of Brett's home run, with about 1,200 fans in attendance.^[6] On paper the scoring of the incident reads as follows: a home run for Brett, on the play Brett, Gaylord Perry, Rocky Colavito, and manager Dick Howser were ejected, game suspended with two outs in the top of the ninth.^[6]

Brett himself did not attend the game, and after the team landed in New Jersey, he departed directly for Baltimore, where the Royals were scheduled to play a four-game series^[6]—although other sources indicate Brett stayed at the Newark airport playing hearts.^[9]

A still furious Martin symbolically protested the continuation of the game by putting pitcher Ron Guidry in center field and first baseman Don Mattingly at second base.^[10] Mattingly was ostensibly placed at second because the second baseman from the July 24 game, Bert Campaneris, was injured, and Guidry replaced original center-fielder Jerry Mumphrey, who had since been traded to the Houston Astros.^[10] By keeping Mattingly and Guidry in the game and filling-in at needed positions, Martin was able to avoid "wast[ing] a possible pinch hitter or runner."^[10]

Mattingly, a lefty, became a rare Major League southpaw second baseman; no left-hander had played second base or shortstop in a big-league game since Cleveland Indians left-handed pitcher Sam McDowell was switched from pitcher to second base for one batter in a game in 1970 against the Washington Senators.^[11] Through June 2012, Don Mattingly remains the last left-hander to play second base in a big-league game.^[12]

Base touching affidavit

Before the first pitch to Hal McRae (who followed Brett in the lineup), pitcher George Frazier threw the first ball to first base to challenge Brett's home run on the grounds that Brett had not touched first.^[10] Umpire Tim Welke (given incorrectly in some sources as Tim McClelland, the original home plate umpire^[10]) called safe, even though he had not officiated the July 24 game and seen the base touch.^[6] Frazier then threw to second, claiming that the base was touched by neither Brett nor U.L. Washington, the other player scoring on the home run, but umpire Dave Phillips signaled safe.^[10]

Billy Martin went on the field to protest, and Phillips pulled out a notarized affidavit, produced by MacPhail's administrative assistant Bob Fishel, signed by all four umpires from July 24 indicating that Brett had touched every base.^[10] Fishel had been the official to anticipate — or gain word — that Martin would protest the base touching and the umpires' personal knowledge of it.^[7]

Martin claimed to be surprised by the affidavit because he had spoken by telephone to the first base umpire from July 24, Drew Coble, and Coble had said that he wasn't looking at first base when Brett had circled first base.^[10] As he exited the umpires announced that the game was being played under protest by the Yankees. After leaving the field, Martin sat in the players' clubhouse watching the television police comedy Barney Miller.^[6]

[DDJBDPGM]

I bet this whole thing would not have happened if it wasn't the Yankees. They were sending tapes to the A.L. office almost on a daily basis to complain about calls against them. I think it was MacPhail's chance to get back at them a bit for being such a pain. Plus MacPhail was a former Yankee employee who split when Steinbrenner bought the team. If this happened in Cleveland I doubt it would have ended the way it did.