George H. Brett

(1953- ) lived in Omaha. Professional baseball player, executive, sportscaster, played 21 seasons in the major leagues as a third baseman, compiling a career .305 batting average, achieving 3,154 career hits, and leading the Kansas City Royals to a world championship in 1985; he played for Omaha during the 1973 and 1974 seasons in the American Association, and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. Consult Current Biography (1981) 33-36 and Newsweek, October 19, 1998, pp. 62-63 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, July 25, 1999, p. C-1 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 141-143.

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