Episode 74: Dennis Leonard - The Way the Game was Meant to be Played

To say that former Kansas City Royals pitcher Dennis Leonard was a competitive athlete is an understatement. How competitive was he? One time when a “camper” at the Royals Fantasy Camp got a hit off him during one of the games, and then bragged about it from first base, that player wore one in the back the next time he came up. Leonard remembers fondly the rivalry with the New York Yankees that saw George Brett and Graig Nettles exchanged blows during a game and neither one got thrown out of the game. He joins us to talk about “the good ol’ days.”