He had smeared pine tar and dirt on his Red Sox cap.

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The club agreed to give Brett the bat he used in the infamous 1983 "Pine Tar Game" as part of the pact, but that wasn't the only odd perk.

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When he famously got a home run taken away from him for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983, he went from dugout to umpire in a 3.7 seconds.

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He's most famous for the so-called pine-tar incident, in which a home-plate umpire at Yankees Stadium disallowed a Brett home run on grounds that his bat bore an overly liberal coating of pine tar.

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But while the pine-tar controversy was unusual, the circumstances of Brett's home run that day were not.

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