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George Brett
George Brett

George Brett is a legendary American professional baseball player, born on May 15, 1953. He played as a third baseman in Major League Baseball, renowned for his exceptional hitting and defensive skills. Throughout his career, Brett won multiple awards, including two American League MVP awards, and was selected for the All-Star Game multiple times. more

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“Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.”

“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”