The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy

An enjoyable romp through a bygone era - the NY-KC baseball rivalry of the 70s & 80s. Author helpfully provides the backstory into what all went into the Pine Tar Game, and how it fits into overall baseball lore.

Highly recommended to any baseball fan, especially of the KC Royals or the '60s-80s era. Also recommended for anyone who enjoys the quirkiness of sports.

This is a very entertaining book. As someone who is a Royals fan, I'm interested in the topic anyway, but the author knocks it out of the park (pun intended).

Funny, well researched, comprehensive and just plain fun to read. If you like baseball, if you are a Yankees or Royals fan, or if you want to understand why George Brett insanely charged an umpire - read this book.

So I'm probably the target audience for this book in that I was in high school and college during this era. I have lived in the Greater Kansas City area my whole life so I am of course a Royals fan. Add to this that through connections I spent those 10 years going to Royals games lucky enough to sit behind the Royals dugout about 10 rows back. Add in again that I was a teenage girl through my early 20s when George Brett was hot. See what I mean? Target audience.

This was a very fun trip down memory lane. Some of the names involved I hadn't thought of in 30 years but they all came back to me. The writing style was easy and accessible. The book was set up to explain the background of both teams and all the people involved. It touched on show more the history of baseball and how the game had arrived at the 1970s and briefly some differences from today.

After explaining the whole game and the resulting brouhaha the book touched on fall out and the recent trip to the World Series by the Royals.

This should be a fun read for any baseball fan or anyone who followed either team back in the day. show less