Steve Stone Bat Incident Follow-up

I have a followup to this post:

This must be from 1974 or 1975.  I can't find anything about it on the web.  Does anyone remember what the story was?  Pine tar, ala George Brett?

(To see this properly you'll need to click on it.)

I found this:

The date of the paper was August 19, 1975, the day after the game.