Favorite Baseball Fights

IIRC, didn't this one have its roots in the Pete Rose-Bud Harrelson collision at second base at Shea during the 73 NLCS?

 

Funny thing about that fight, Rico Petrocelli's brother was a NYC cop at Yankee Stadium and pulled Rico out from the pile of players.

 

Terrific addendum!

 

In Bill Lee's bio, he wrote about that fight, and said that every time Petrocelli threw a punch, a pinstriped body would hit the ground.

 

I remember the brawl in in Atlanta in 84. My mother was not a baseball fan and she thought it was unreal. TBS used to do Braves preseason special and they ran "highlights" from this brawl to the Todd Rundgren tune of "Can We Still Be Friends". I know STeve Bedrosian (former Brave) and his family and mentioned the brawl to his wife and she said that Wiggins wife said they should all pray.
Also, the Braves played Detroit in the Hall of Fame game the next day and an inside pitch nearly hit a Braves player and some of the crowds reacted. Williams was lucky that nobody was seriously hurt. Pitch at Perez once and leave it alone afterwards. Shame that Perez was never the same after that and the Braves wound up releasing him in 1986.

 

Believe you're getting your facts confused. Lee's career didn't begin until 69, a couple years after that brawl.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leebi03.shtml

 

When Lee wrote about it, he referred to the fight happening before he got there. He was writing about various teammates when he first arrived.

 

Not a fight, but the angriest reaction in baseball, George Brett, pine tar game.

 

No way, no WAY can this thread to continue without a tip of the cap to the '86 Mets:

http://youtu.be/jQLZaVIXFJM

Fightin', fvckin, boozing, snortin', winning. No one did it all at once better than the '86 Mets.

 

The other cool things about that game was that it should have ended inthe ninth, but Dave Parker dropped an easy fly with two outs and some runners on bases to tie the game. After the ejections, Johnson had to use Carter at third base and both Orosco and McDowell in the outfield when they each stopped pitching.

 

You forgot decapitating cats. They did that better than anybody, too.

 

Tigers and White Sox had a pretty good one in '81 when Al Cowens -- instead of running out a ground ball -- went after Ed Farmer, who had beaned him a year earlier when Cowens was with KC and Farmer was with Texas. Benches emptied and the Illinois State Police took out a warrant for Cowens's arrest.