Remember when?

[Vintagedeputy]

I was looking through the thread about pounded gamers and saw member gameused's Edgar Martinez bat:

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5759&stc=1&d=1182798163

I thought to myself man that's a lot of pine tar! Its got to be way past the 18 inch rule. What would Billy Martin say!

I did a quick search on the net (boy I love Wikipedia!) and found this gem from the past:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/George_brett_pine_tar_bat_rotated.JPG/300px-George_brett_pine_tar_bat_rotated.JPG
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/images/artifacts/brett_pinetar_bat.jpg
The infamous George Brett "pine tar incident" bat - July 24, 1983. Could that have really been 24 years ago?

[gameused]

Vintagedeputy,

I remember that, Brett went berserk!

Hers a close up of that Brett pine tar bat. I also found a couple of Edgar Martinez heavily tarred bat pics.

Bobby

[Vintagedeputy]

gameused - excellent pics! Man, that Edgar bat is FILTHY!

[Carlevv]

I'd love to start a post of the guys who LOVE pine tar. Here's a few that come to mind....

Jay Buhner, i asked him one time why he used so much pine tar and he came up with this, "because it makes the bat look bitchen". I loved it.
Edgar
Mickey Tettlelton
Wade Boggs
Mark Grace
Doug Meitcavitch, spelling!
Posada
Mike Lansing

Thats just to name a few. I'd really like to see a list of guys and a pic of their bats. If i had a camera and knew how to put pics on the computer i'd a have a few. Ripken, Jeter, McGwire, Gwynn, Boggs, Pudge, Arod, and Posada.

[Vintagedeputy]

My 2007 game used Posada gamer:

http://www.gameusedgallery.com/data/tmp_media/Posadaentirebat.JPG