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Fri Oct 12, 2007, 12:26pm

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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Look at the pine tar incident this way...Billy Martin waited till Brett touched the plate after he hit the homerun to appeal the bat. He didn't say anything before because he wanted to take away a game-winning homerun. It's pretty known in baseball historian circles that Steinbrenner had directed Martin to act that way, wait till they would have lost the game before appealing. It wasn't the AL president who overturned McClelland's call, it was the Major League office.

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