George Brett
MLB debut August 2, 1973 for the Kansas City Royals Last MLB appearance October 3, 1993 for the Kansas City Royals Career statistics Batting average .305 Hits 3,154 Home runs 317 Runs batted in 1,596 Teams Kansas City Royals (1973–1993) Career highlights and awards 13× All-Star (1976–1988) World Series champion (1985) AL MVP (1980) ALCS MVP (1985) Gold Glove Award (1985) 3× Silver Slugger Award (1980, 1985, 1988) 3× AL batting champion (1976, 1980, 1990) Kansas City Royals #5 retired Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction 1999 Vote 98.2% (first ballot) George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953), is a retired American baseball third baseman and designated hitter who played 21 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) 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. 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.