Editing George Brett (section)

==The Mendoza Line==
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Brett is credited with popularizing the phrase the [[Mendoza Line]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Seminara |first=Dave |date=July 6, 2010 |title=Branded for life with 'The Mendoza Line' |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |url=http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/article_cff05af5-032e-5a29-b5a8-ecc9216b0c02.html}} Said [[Chris Berman]], “Mario Mendoza?—it's all George Brett," Berman said. "We used [the Mendoza Line] all the time in those 1980s ''[[SportsCenter]]s''.”</ref> which is used to represent a sub-.200 batting average, historically regarded as unacceptable at the Major League level. It derives from shortstop [[Mario Mendoza]], a career .215 hitter who finished below .200 five times in his nine seasons in the big leagues—including .198 the year the term is claimed to have been coined by a pair of his teammates in [[Tom Paciorek]] and [[Bruce Bochte]] in 1979.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Brett referred to the Mendoza Line in an interview, which was picked up by [[ESPN]] baseball anchor [[Chris Berman]] and then expanded into the world of ''[[SportsCenter]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/how-did-the-mendoza-line-become-an-mlb-term-c277392972 | title=How did Mario Mendoza become a shorthand for batting futility? | website=[[MLB.com]] | date=May 22, 2018 }}</ref>