George Brett

George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953), is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman. He played his entire 21-year baseball career 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 (the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot. To date, Brett is the only player in MLB history to win a batting title in three different decades.

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Filmography

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Selected George Brett film and TV show credits.

Acting Credits

1981

Miracle on Ice (TV Movie)

Player

Self

2012

2012 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

2009

United States of Tara (TV Show)

2009

Prime 9 (TV Show)

2008

2008 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

2007

A Night at the Hot Corner (TV Movie)

2007

Triumph and Tragedy: The Ray Mancini Story

2005

Mike and Mike in the Morning (TV Show)

2004

ESPN 25: Who's #1? (TV Show)

2003

Rome Is Burning (TV Show)

2003

ESPN Outside the Lines Nightly (TV Show)

2002

Yankeeography (TV Show)

1999

ESPN SportsCentury (TV Show)

1999

The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (TV Show)

1996

MLB on FOX (TV Show)

1993

Late Show with David Letterman (TV Show)

1990

Sunday Night Baseball (TV Show)

1988

1988 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1985

1985 World Series (TV Show)

1985

1985 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1985

1985 American League Championship Series (TV Show)

1984

1984 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1984

1984 American League Championship Series (TV Show)

1983

Just Men! (TV Show)

1983

1983 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1982

Late Night with David Letterman (TV Show)

1982

1982 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1981

1981 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1980

1980 World Series (TV Show)

1979

1979 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1978

1978 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1978

1978 American League Championship Series (TV Show)

1977

Fantasy Island (TV Show)

1977

1977 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1977

1977 American League Championship Series (TV Movie)

1976

1976 MLB All-Star Game (TV Movie)

1976

1976 American League Championship Series (TV Show)

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG
1973	KCR	13	40	2	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.125	0.125	0.175
1974	KCR	133	457	49	129	21	5	2	47	8	21	38	0.282	0.313	0.363
1975	KCR	159	634	84	195	35	13	11	89	13	46	49	0.308	0.353	0.456
1976	KCR	159	645	94	215	34	14	7	67	21	49	36	0.333	0.377	0.462
1977	KCR	139	564	105	176	32	13	22	88	14	55	24	0.312	0.373	0.532
1978	KCR	128	510	79	150	45	8	9	62	23	39	35	0.294	0.342	0.467
1979	KCR	154	645	119	212	42	20	23	107	17	51	36	0.329	0.376	0.563
1980	KCR	117	449	87	175	33	9	24	118	15	58	22	0.390	0.454	0.664
1981	KCR	89	347	42	109	27	7	6	43	14	27	23	0.314	0.361	0.484
1982	KCR	144	552	101	166	32	9	21	82	6	71	51	0.301	0.378	0.505
1983	KCR	123	464	90	144	38	2	25	93	0	57	39	0.310	0.385	0.563
1984	KCR	104	377	42	107	21	3	13	69	0	38	37	0.284	0.344	0.459
1985	KCR	155	550	108	184	38	5	30	112	9	103	49	0.335	0.436	0.585
1986	KCR	124	441	70	128	28	4	16	73	1	80	45	0.290	0.401	0.481
1987	KCR	115	427	71	124	18	2	22	78	6	72	47	0.290	0.388	0.496
1988	KCR	157	589	90	180	42	3	24	103	14	82	51	0.306	0.389	0.509
1989	KCR	124	457	67	129	26	3	12	80	14	59	47	0.282	0.362	0.431
1990	KCR	142	544	82	179	45	7	14	87	9	56	63	0.329	0.387	0.515
1991	KCR	131	505	77	129	40	2	10	61	2	58	75	0.255	0.327	0.402
1992	KCR	152	592	55	169	35	5	7	61	8	35	69	0.285	0.330	0.397
1993	KCR	145	560	69	149	31	3	19	75	7	39	67	0.266	0.312	0.434
Career		2707	10349	1583	3154	665	137	317	1595	201	1096	908	-	-	-

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Major League fielding statistics for George Brett.

Year	Team	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%
1973	KCR	13	9	96	9	28	1	2	0.974
1974	KCR	133	128	1,137	102	279	21	16	0.948
1975	KCR	159	159	1,425	132	356	26	27	0.949
1976	KCR	159	159	1,427	146	350	26	23	0.950
1977	KCR	135	134	1,185	115	325	21	33	0.954
1978	KCR	128	128	1,104	104	289	16	25	0.961
1979	KCR	153	153	1,338	176	378	31	34	0.947
1980	KCR	113	113	1,002	107	256	17	29	0.955
1981	KCR	88	87	758	74	170	14	7	0.946
1982	KCR	144	143	1,249	131	295	17	23	0.962
1983	KCR	122	121	1,023	208	192	25	34	0.941
1984	KCR	101	101	789	59	201	14	18	0.949
1985	KCR	152	152	1,339	107	339	15	33	0.967
1986	KCR	115	115	992	97	218	16	17	0.952
1987	KCR	94	94	809	805	69	9	72	0.990
1988	KCR	124	124	1,076	1126	70	10	105	0.992
1989	KCR	105	105	906	898	80	2	71	0.998
1990	KCR	110	109	947	880	67	7	89	0.993
1991	KCR	10	10	84	87	5	1	6	0.989
1992	KCR	18	18	159	139	17	3	10	0.981
1993	KCR	140		-					-
Career		2316	2162	-	5502	3984	292	674	-

First Name	George
Middle Name	Howard
Last Name	Brett
Full Name at Birth	George Howard Brett
Other Names	Mullet
Age	60
Date of Birth	May 15, 1953
Birthplace	Glen Dale, WV
Height	6' (183 cm)
Weight	185 lbs (83.9 kg)
Build	Average
Hair Color	Salt and Pepper
Star Sign	Taurus
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	American
High School	El Segundo (El Segundo, CA)
Occupation	Former Major League Baseball Player
Occupation Category	Baseball
Position	Third Baseman, First Baseman
Bats	Left
Throws	Right
MLB Debut	2 August 1973
Last MLB Game	3 October 1993
Draft	Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 2nd round of the 1971 amateur draft.
Hall of Fame	Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1999 (488/497 ballots).