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1980 George Brett Royal Throwback Jersey Size 54 Cooperstown Collection 1980 All these impressive statistics were just a prelude to 1980 , when Brett won the American League MVP and batted .390, a modern record for a third baseman . 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 1941 .Brett's 1980 batting average of .390 is second only to Tony Gwynn 's 1994 average of .394 for the highest single season batting average since 1941. Brett also recorded 118 RBI , while appearing in just 117 games.Brett started out slowly, hitting only .259 in April. In May, he hit .329 to get his season average to .301. In June, the 27 year-old third baseman hit .472 (17-36) to raise his season average to .337, but played his last game for a month on June 10 , not returning to the lineup until after the All-Star Break on July 10 .In July, after being off for a month, he played in 21 games and hit .494 (42–85), raising his season average to .390. Brett started a 30-game hitting streak on July 18 , which lasted until he went 0-3 on August 19 (the following night he went 3-for-3). During these 30 games Brett hit .467 (57-122). 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 . He batted .430 for the month of August (30 games), and his season average was at .403 with five weeks to go. For the three hot months of June, July, and August 1980, George Brett played in 60 American League games and hit .459 (111–242), most of it after a return from a monthlong injury. For these 60 games he had 69 RBIs and 14 home runs.Brett missed another 10 days in early September and hit just .290 for the month. His average was at .400 as late as September 19 , but he then had a 4 for 27 slump, and the average dipped to .384 on September 27 , with a week to play. For the final week, Brett went 10-for-19, which included going 2 for 4 in the final regular season game on October 4 . His season average ended up at .390 (175 hits in 449 at-bats = .389755), and he averaged more than one RBI per game. Brett was the first major league player since 1950 to have more than one RBI per game (90 or more RBIs). Brett led the league in both on-base percentage (.454) and slugging percentage (.664) on his way to capturing 17 of 28 possible first-place votes in the MVP race. Since Al Simmons also batted .390 in 1931 for the Philadelphia Athletics, the only higher averages subsequent to 1931 were by Ted Williams of the Red Sox (.406 in 1941) and Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres (.394 in the strike-shortened 1994 season).More importantly, the Royals won the American League West, and would face the Eastern champion Yankees in the ALCS . [ edit ] 1980 post-season In the 1980 post-season, Brett led the Royals to their first American League pennant, sweeping the playoffs in three games from the rival Yankees who had beaten K.C. in the 1976 , 1977 and 1978 playoffs. In Game 3, Brett hit a ball well into the third deck of Yankee Stadium off of Yankees closer Goose Gossage . Long-time ABC broadcaster Howard Cosell commented "...it looked like Gossage let up on that pitch that Brett hit out, and Brett made him pay for it," but a few seconds later the ABC radar gun showed the pitch's speed at 98 mph, Gossage's fastest pitch of the game.Brett then hit .375 in the 1980 World Series , but the Royals lost in six games to the Philadelphia Phillies . During the Series, Brett made headlines after leaving Game 2 in the 6th inning due to hemorrhoid pain. Brett had minor surgery the next day, and in Game 3 returned to hit a home run as the Royals won in 10 innings 4-3. In 1981 he missed two weeks of Spring training to have his hemorrhoids removed. All numbers and letters are sewn on : No cheap screen printed jerseys her... read more

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