People joked about how long TBS kept showing George Brett and his wife, Leslie Davenport Brett, in the stands because the camera focused on them for so long.
Some were also mocked by the fact that TBS showed five minutes of George Brett texting next to his wife, who was also texting during the New York Yankees vs Kansas City Royals Game.
Highlights
- One Twitter user said Leslie must be the same age as George, making her 71. In response, people disagreed, insisting she looked 45.
- Aside from all the talk and rumors, Leslie Davenport is 59 years old and celebrates her birthday in December.
- So, the couple, George Brett and Leslie Brett, have a 12-year age difference.
At the same time, folks compared his wife to Marjorie Taylor Greene and noted that she had a youthful look that made her age hard to guess.
They even Googled how old Leslie Davenport is but got confused with someone with the same name.
They found a 20th-century British artist and teacher who died at 67 and mistakenly thought that was her age.
Baseball fans knew George Brett was in his 70s but had no idea how old Leslie Davenport was.
Leslie Brett Is Quite Younger Than Her Husband, George Brett
One Twitter user said Leslie must be the same age as George, making her 71. In response, people disagreed, insisting she looked 45.
Even her family commented that she didn’t seem to age and looked just as young and beautiful as the boys when they were in preschool.
Aside from all the talk and rumors, Leslie Davenport is 59 years old and celebrates her birthday in December.
So, the couple, George Brett and Leslie Brett, have a 12-year age difference.
Well, Leslie Brett owns The Little Flower Shop in Kansas City. She studied at The University of Kansas and attended Wichita Collegiate School.
Leslie resides in Mission Hills, Kansas, and is originally from Wichita, Kansas.
Brett married Leslie Davenport in 1992 and lived in Mission Hills, a suburb of Kansas City.
They have three children: Jackson, named after George’s dad; Dylan, named after Bob Dylan; and Robin, named after Hall of Famer Robin Yount.
Back in 2018, Brett appeared as himself in the “Brockmire” episode “Player to Be Named Later,” where he dated Jules, played by Amanda Peet, much to Brockmire’s annoyance.
In another episode, “Low and Away,” Jules tells Brockmire that she and Brett are getting a divorce.
The show’s creator, Joel Church-Cooper, explained that he wanted Brockmire, a fictional Kansas City legend, to admire the most prominent absolute legend from the area.
Additional Information
- Leslie Brett lost her father due to depression in 2004.
- George Brett was born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, and was the youngest of four brothers in a sports-loving family.
- His second-oldest brother, Ken, was a major league pitcher who, at 19, played in the 1967 World Series.
