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I still have vivid recollections of hearing about that happening -- George Brett was among my favorite players when I was a kid -- and thinking how stupid that decision was and how petty Billy Martin was to go there. For whatever reason, that whole thing always harkens back to the 1980 ALCS, when Brett hit an absolute bomb off of Goose Gossage in Game 3 and swept the Yankees out. Of course, Brett and his Royals had something of a long and contentious history with those Yankees, including a brawl between Brett and Graig Nettles at 3rd base of the deciding game of the ALCS in 1977, too.
It's amazing how heated things can be when rosters stay virutally intact for a long period of time.
