Biography:Played 21 years for the Kansas City Royals in the MLB. His 3,154 career hits are the most by any third baseman in MLB history, and he is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average.
1991-02-15 Baseball superstar George Brett (37) weds Leslie Davenport in Manhattan Beach, California
Historical Events
1973-08-02 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman George Brett gets his 1st MLB hit on debut for the Kansas City Royals in 3-1 win over Chicago White Sox
1978-10-06 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
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 Kansas City Royals' George Brett hitting streak ends at 30 games
1980-09-20 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
1980-11-18 Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1982-08-29 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1983-07-24 Pine Tar Game: George Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1986-05-25 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1989-09-08 American MLB player George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
1990-07-25 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990-10-03 Kansas City 3rd baseman George Brett becomes first in MLB history to win a batting title in 3 different decades; goes 1 for 1 in Royals, 5-2 loss v Cleveland to win AL batting title with .329 average; AL batting champion 1976, 80
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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