Former Royals slugger Jeff Conine has a new podcast “Outside the Box with Jeff Conine”, where he talks baseball with co-host Aram Leighton. In a recent episode he discussed the wildest brawl he had ever been involved in, a 1998 tilt with the Anaheim Angels.
It all started in 1997, when slugger Phil Nevin was with the Detroit Tigers. Conine, who was still with the championship Marlins that year, says that there was an incident where Phil Nevin bowled over catcher Mike Sweeney at home plate when Sweeney didn’t even have the ball, an incident the Royals considered a dirty play.