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...While Brett and his multimillionaire brethren will undoubtedly benefit from President Reagan's 25-per-cent tax cut, several of his fellow and less-well-paid baseball unionists suffered financially this summer. And most of them didn't even understand the tricky sticking issue of free-agent compensation. "Don't ask me. You'll have to call Marvin Miller," said Toronto Blue Jay player representative Alvis Woods in response to questions during the strike...
...afternoon before the baseball strike, Kansas City third baseman George Brett rose from a card game in the Royal locker room in Toronto. He was asked to comment on the impending work stoppage...
...certainly did," said Buck O'Neil, first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs. "Don't feel sorry for nobody you see here. They could play the game as well as anyone who ever played. I don't care how far they go today. However high George Brett goes, or however far Reggie Jackson hits the ball, these fellows have all been there." -By Peter Ainslie...
Baltimore's batting craftsman, Ken Singleton, went into May with a .471 average, 25 hits in 53 at bats, including at one point ten hits in a row. The average of Kansas City's George Brett, who chased .400 into the final week of the season last year: .208. The Houston Astros, with the National League's best pitching staff in 1980, managed to win just seven of their first 19 games in 1981, while giving up 50 runs. That was two more games than a pudgy 20-year-old marvel for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Fernando...
...only damage was to the Royals' pride. Willie Wilson, who this season became only the second player to get 100 hits both left- and righthanded while averaging .326, suffered the cruelest fate. His Series-ending strikeout set a new record for whiffs (twelve). Brett, ey ing Wilson's empty locker after the leftfielder had fled to the showers, sympathized with his teammate: "Willie did things this year no player has ever done before, but this is what people will remember, the strikeouts...