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George Brett's provides an upscale, low-key casual dining atmosphere serving traditional American fare from steaks, burgers and panini sandwiches to a variety of comfort foods, such as meatloaf, roasted chicken and cracker crust pizzas. Top it off with our homemade hot fudge sundaes. The happy hour hot spot with high definition plasma screen televisions. First available seating, private dining room reservations available. Price Range: $6.50 to $20. Happy hour weekdays from 3:30pm to 6:30pm.
ADDRESS:
210 W. 47th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64112
PHONE: (816) 561-6565
HOURS:
Sunday - Thursday
11AM - midnight
Friday & Saturday
11Am - 2AM
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"My brothers (Bobby, John, Ken) and I entered the bat business with the goal of ensuring that coaches at all levels of baseball have access to superior quality composite wood bats that are cost effective." The Brett Brothers have been involved in baseball their entire lives. We are four brothers and all of us played professional ball at one time. Bobby and John played in the Minor Leagues, and Ken and George together put in 31 years in the Major Leagues."
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HALL OF FAME VIDEO BIO
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Tim McClelland would like to make one thing perfectly clear: "We didn't call him out for an illegal bat," McClelland said. "That's always been misinterpreted. We called him out for an illegally batted ball." George Brett would like to make another thing perfectly clear: "I'm stupid, but I'm not dumb," he said.
George was an uncredited player for Team Sweden in the 1981 made-for-TV movie Miracle on Ice.
George: "You have to be a red sox fan, if you hate the yankees as much as I do."
Whitey Herzog: "He's the only guy I've ever seen who could literally fall out of bed on January 1 and get a base hit."
American League umpire Steve Palermo: "If God had him no balls and two strikes, he'd still get a hit."
Jim Sundberg: "With most great players on other teams, you notice how great they are, but when they become teammates and you see them everyday, you notice the flaws. It is exactly the opposite with George Brett."
Goose Gossage on serving up George's 1980 ALCS-winning homer: "I remember the crack of the bat. The noise. The noise of the bat, the sound of the bat -- it was like nothing I had ever heard before. It was the loudest crack. I will never forget that crack. And then the silence."
Fred White: "I think when George goes to heaven, there will be the Babe and Gehrig and a few of the really, really great ones all hanging around together, and one of 'em will say: 'Hey, that's George Brett.'"
George: "Hitting is a strange thing. You're so smart talking about hitting, and then you step into the batter's box, and something happens to you. You get stupid. It's like everything goes out the window. You step into the batter's box, and immediately you turn into a third-grader. Fortunately, pitchers are like second-graders."
George: "If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans."
George is reported to be the coiner of the phrase "the Mendoza line".
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George is the only player other than Joe DiMaggio to have hit at least 20 homers in a season and have less strikeouts than homers, when in 1980, George hit 24 with only 22 Ks.
George's .390 average in 1980 is the highest since Ted Williams' .406 in 1941.
George is the only player to win a batting title in three different decades (1976, 1980, 1990).
George holds the record for consecutive games with 3 or more base hits, with 6.
George ranks 5th alltime in career doubles.
George ranks 1st alltime for intentional walks in the American League.
George owns a .340 career postseason batting average and hit .373 in two World Series.
George's nine career home runs and .728 slugging average are LCS records. George hit three homers in one ALCS game, on October 6, 1978, vs. the Yankees.
George hit for the cycle twice: on May 28, 1979 and July 25, 1990.
George was elected to Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers in 1999 with 488 votes on 497 ballots (98.2%), the 4th highest percentage to date, behind only Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan and Ty Cobb.
George is the only player besides Ty Cobb to lead his league in hits and triples three times.
In 1980, George also became one of the few batters to ever drive in more runs (118) than games played (117). That same year, George led the league in batting, slugging, OBP, OPS and Total Average, the last player to do so in the AL.
"The Royals and the yankees hated each other. To this day, whenever I see Lou Piniella or one of those yankees, we talk about how I hated those guys. It was the way baseball was meant to be played. They were hard-fought games, very, very physical."
In the 1978 AL Playoffs, George hit a triple and crashed into yankees third baseman Graig Nettles. "I came up and gave him an elbow, and he stepped back and kicked me in the face," George said. "We came to blows right there, but that was the kind of rivalry we had."
It was yankee Thurman Munson, though, who helped George in that '78 fight with Nettles in KC. "Craig and I are throwing haymakers at each other, and the next thing I know I'm on the bottom," George recalled. "And Thurman is lying on top of me with his catching gear on and saying, ...'Don't worry, George. I won't let anybody hit you when you're down.' And they didn't."
After George lined a single for his 3,000th career hit, he was picked off first base by angels' pitcher Tim Fortugno. George was talking with angels first baseman Gary Gaetti.
George collected his 3,000th hit on September 30, 1992, becoming the first player to collect four hits in the game he reached 3,000.
George hit his 300th home run on May 13, 1993 - it was caught by a blind fan.
George had a hitting-streak of 30 games (1980), and hit .467 (57-for-122) during the streak.
George is the last man to have at least 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 home runs in the same season. In 1979, he hit 42 doubles, 20 triples and 24 home runs.
George also holds the record for career sacrifice flies by a left handed batter, 120.
In George's final game, at Arlington Stadium against the texas rangers, catcher Ivan Rodriguez put his arm on George's shoulder and told him that pitcher Tom Henke would be throwing nothing but fastballs. With the count 1-2, George bounced a single up the middle for a base hit. He later scored on Gary Gaetti's home run, so George's final act on a major league diamond was to touch home plate.