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Brett's batting average was at or above. 400 as late in the season as September 19, and the country closely followed his quest to bat. 400 for an entire season, a feat which has not been accomplished since Ted Williams in.
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Many of the team's highlights from this era instead centered around the end of Brett's career, such as his third and final batting title in 1990 – which made him the first player to win batting titles in three different decades – and his 3, 000th hit.
Brett's minor league stops were in Billings, Montana ( 1971 ) for Rookie League, San Jose, California () for Single-A, and Omaha, Nebraska in for Triple-A with the Omaha Royals, batting. 291,. 274, and. 284, respectively.
Brett's 1980 batting average of. 390 is second only to Tony Gwynn's average of. 394 ( Gwynn played in 110 games and had 419 at-bats in the strike-shortened season, compared to Brett's 449 at bats in 1980 ) for the highest single season batting average since 1941.
His high mark for the season came a week later, when Brett's batting average was at. 407 on August 26, after he went 5-for-5 on a Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
Sweeney had one of the best, if not the best, seasons of his career in 2002, hitting. 340 for the second-highest batting average in the American League and the 2nd-highest in club history only to George Brett's. 390 in 1980.
His most productive season came in, when he hit a career-high. 352 ( finishing second in the American League behind batting champion George Brett's. 390 average for the Kansas City Royals ), and he also led the league in RBI ( 122 ) and total bases ( 335 ).
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London was introduced to Kittredge by his MacMillan publisher, George Platt Brett, Sr., while Kittredge served as Brett's secretary.
Bobby's # 9 was retired by the Chicago Black Hawks and Winnipeg Jets ( now Phoenix Coyotes ) and Brett's # 16 was retired by the St. Louis Blues.
On 26 February, its slot was taken for three weeks by an original series from Brett, while a three-hour I Did It My Way programme showcasing Brett's work was rebroadcast by BBC Radio 7 on Saturday 20 February, including a repeat of A Series of Murders.
** The Mazarin Stone-Mycroft was used in place of Sherlock owing to Jeremy Brett's ill health.
Recorded at locations in California and also at lead singer Brett's home Studio at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Love was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads who also worked with successful acts Live and No Doubt.
I think one of Brett's quests as a song writer was to write a pop hit.
" Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda was an admirer of Ken Brett's hitting ability and once remarked that " if we'd drafted him, we'd have put him in center field and he'd have stayed there.
Perkins, using Brett's original notes, remarks that three or four people were auditioned for the part of the narrator, in search of a " Peter Jones-y sort of voice " before Peter Jones himself was actually contacted.
He played Count Brownowsky in The Jewel in the Crown ; he was also seen as Fagin in the 1985 BBC version of Oliver Twist ; as Thomas Danforth in the BBC production of The Crucible ; and as Professor Moriarty opposite Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes stories The Red-Headed League and The Final Problem ( both 1985 ).
The team was decently successful, making the playoffs in four of their seven overall seasons, and even making it to the inaugural Indoor Bowl, losing to the Mississippi Fire Dogs ( which were coached by Irvin Favre, Brett's father ).
An unusual feature of Brett's career at a time when players freely swapped sides as " given men " was that he always played for Hampshire.
In that game, George Brett of the Royals hit a two-run home run off of Yankees reliever Goose Gossage in the ninth inning, but home plate umpire Tim McClelland, after conferring with Brinkman and the rest of the crew, found that the pine tar on Brett's bat exceeded the allowed limit of 18 inches, and Brett was called out.
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On May 12, 2010 ( which happened to be Brett's 48th birthday ), bassist Jay Bentley posted an update on their Facebook page regarding the recording process of the album: " first week of recording at joe's house of compression and brooks gets the medal for superasskicking.
Brett's father at this point notices the van crashed on the lawn.
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Meanwhile, in Washington, General George Marshall and the Chief of Army Air Forces, Lieutenant General Henry Arnold, had become alarmed at Brett's integration of the USAAF and RAAF, and disturbed by his inability to work with MacArthur.
However publicist Phill Savage suggests that Anderson " can't believe he wrote it about that girl, Anick " ( Brett's girlfriend at the time ), which is why he has no feelings for it.
The original of Brett's memorandum, bearing Small's signature, is maintained by Marylebone Cricket Club in its museum at Lord's.
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In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.
Thanks to the sudden and surprising maturation of most of the aforementioned players ( specifically the pitching ), the Royals won their fifth division championship in 1984, relying on Brett's bat and the young pitching staff of Saberhagen, Gubicza, Charlie Leibrandt, Black and Jackson.
Brett's 3, 154 career hits are the most by any third baseman in major league history and 16th all-time.
Very similar things can be said about the heroine of Brett's book, Esther Zepler.
In Simon Brett's long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy drama, No Commitments ( 1992 – 2007 ), Beckenham is the home of the wildly snobbish, socially aspirational and insecure sister Victoria ; the town is frequently mocked by association.
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He traded positions with Hall of Fame third baseman George Brett later in the season, in hopes of reducing Brett's chances of injury.
Cricket's statistical record from the 1772 season gives proof of Brett's ability, bearing in mind that all his known wickets were bowled.
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George Brett's pine-tar bat, along with Mark McGwire's body armor
Yankees manager Billy Martin immediately protested that Brett's bat had more than 18 inches of pine tar.
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The 25-game hitting streak is tied for third longest in Royals history with George Brett's 25-game streak in 1983, trailing only Brett's 30-game streak in 1980 and José Offerman's 27-game streak in 1998.
At the end of Brett's novel, overwhelming evidence is suddenly brought against him for a murder he did not commit.
" According to Brett's Twitter, Bad Religion is aiming for a fall release of the new album.
Despite the Royals victory, Game 4 is best remembered for Dickie Noles ' fourth-inning brushback pitch under Brett's chin that ultimately prompted the umpires to issue warnings to each team.
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Headingley has two renowned fish and chip shops / fish restaurants who have been serving since the 1930s: Brett's, a 19th century stone building on North Lane, and Bryan's, a more modern building on Weetwood Lane.
Some note that " In addition to being immensely entertaining, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes has the unfortunate bonus of tracing the decline of Jeremy Brett's health, episode by episode.
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After giving his own speech, Sifton offered to give the still-absent Brett's speech as well, since he had heard it so many times.
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The batting average of one success out of seven increased to one out of three.
Jensen got only six hits in 46 at-bats for a batting average in the first 12 games.
Willie's lifetime batting average of is 11 points beyond Mickey's.
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England had a very strong batting side, with Wally Hammond contributing 905 runs at an average of 113. 12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Patsy Hendren all scoring heavily ; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding.
The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.
Based on his experience with cricket, Chadwick devised the predecessors to modern day statistics including batting average, runs scored, and runs allowed.
Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.
Throughout modern baseball, a few core statistics have been traditionally referenced — batting average, RBI, and home runs.
* ISO — Isolated power: a hitter's ability to hit for extra bases, calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging percentage
* RISP — Runner In Scoring Position: a breakdown of the batter's batting average with runners in scoring position, which include runners at second and third bases.
* EQA — Equivalent average: a player's batting average absent park and league factors
* OBA — Opponents batting average: hits allowed divided by at-bats faced
In baseball, an at bat ( AB ) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage.
Therefore, a base on balls does not increase nor decrease a player's batting average, but it does increase his on-base percentage, unless a player's on-base percentage is 1. 000, in which case it remains the same.
For small numbers of at-bats, it is possible ( though unlikely ) for a player's on-base percentage to be lower than his batting average ( H / AB ).
This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).
The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.
But, while a sacrifice fly doesn't affect a player's batting average, it counts as a plate appearance and a lower on-base percentage, and a player on a hitting streak will have the hit streak end if he has no official at-bats but has a sacrifice fly.
The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).
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