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Brantley hit .302 in 1987 while leading the Mariners with a club rookie- record 12-game hitting streak and tying team records with five hits and three home runs in one game against Cleveland September 14. Over the first half of the 1988 season, Brantley was among club leaders in hits and homers while playing centerfield for the Mariners. Brantley was world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's "Big Brother" when Tyson was a youth in Catskill, New York. (TF)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » June 5, 1999: Mets manager Bobby Valentine reads in a newspaper report that pitching coach Bob Apodaca is out, and, arriving at the park, discovers that, along with Apodaca, GM Phillips has fired coaches Tom Robson and Randy Niemann. Phillips names replacement coaches Dave Wallace, Al Jackson, and Mickey Brantley.