George Brett Biography

George Howard Brett, is a retired American baseball third baseman and designated hitter who played 21 years in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hits are the most by any third baseman in major league history and 16th all-time. Brett is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot. Brett is the only player in MLB history to win a batting title in three different decades. He was named the Royals' interim hitting coach on May 30, 2013, but stepped down from the position on July 25, 2013 in order to resume his position of vice president of baseball operations. Source: Wikipedia

Marriages

• 1991-02-15
  Baseball superstar George Brett (37) weds Leslie Davenport in Manhattan Beach, California

George Brett Timeline

• 1973-08-02
  George Brett gets his 1st hit
• 1978-10-06
  Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
• 1979-07-23
  George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
• 1979-09-17
  Royals' George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season
• 1980-08-17
  George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
• 1980-08-18
  KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
• 1980-08-19
  George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
• 1980-09-20
  George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
• 1980-10-15
  George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
• 1980-11-18
  Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
• 1982-08-29
  George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
• 1983-07-28
  George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)
• 1986-05-25
  KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
• 1989-09-08
  George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
• 1990-07-25
  KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
• 1990-10-03
  George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
• 1992-09-30
  KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
• 1993-05-13
  KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR

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