George Brett’s timing, an essential element of his superb ability to hit a baseball, was, as usual, at best perfect and at worst very good when, on Sept. 25, 1993, he announced his retirement from the KC Royals.
You could see it coming, this bittersweet end to Brett’s marvelous 21-season career, one spent entirely with his Royals. No player was more responsible than Brett for the baseball renaissance the franchise worked in the city Charlie Finley abandoned because he believed it couldn’t support the game.
Yes, you really could tell it was time. Brett, a career .