George Brett Marquee Hall of Fame 1999

He hit .390 in 1980, driving in 118 runs in 117 games and 449 at-bats. Nobody hit higher in a season of 400 or more at-bats between Ted Williams in 1941 and Tony Gwynn in 1994. He was voted most valuable player, and Kansas City won the pennant and lost the World Series.

On July 24, 1983 he hit a two-run home run off Goose Gossage with two outs in the ninth at Yankee Stadium, and the umpires measured his bat against home plate and called him out for pine tar past the seventeen-inch limit. The league restored it four days later and ordered the game resumed, and Kansas City won 5-4 on August 18.

He led the American League in hits three times and in triples three times, and in 1979 he had 42 doubles, 20 triples and 23 home runs, one of seven seasons in which anyone has reached twenty of each. Four hits on the night of September 30, 1992 took him to 3,000. He and Robin Yount entered the Hall of Fame together in 1999.