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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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Remembered for one at bat
On July 24, 1983, George Brett was at bat in Yankee Stadium, facing Goose Gossage. He homered, trotted around the bases, and confronted the umpires, who were examining his bat. He was called out, and the run nullified - the umpires claiming he had too much pine tar on the grip of his bat.
Countless news clips and video segments on the history of baseball have run since then - showing Brett in the midst of a classic meltdown. The Royals challenged the ruling, and it was later overturned.
Interviewed for an Associated Press article yesterday, Gossage was quoted as describing Brett: "the maddest human being I've ever seen." And Brett rather ruefully commented that he is remembered in baseball history books for that one at-bat, when actually he had an impressive 20 year career in the majors with a lifetime batting average of .305 and 317 career home runs.
Yet the 25th anniversary of that one at-bat is what gets mentioned on the sports pages.
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