Brent Robert Gates (born March 14, 1970 Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a former Major League Baseball second and third baseman. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota.
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the first round of the 1991 Major League Baseball Draft, Gates made his Major League Baseball debut with the Oakland Athletics on May 5, 1993, and appeared in his final game on October 3, 1999.
Gates is currently head coach of the Grand Rapids Christian High School baseball team. He was previously coach of the Class-A West Michigan Whitecaps for the 2001 season.
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“Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood
Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
Whelms us to the tired land where tasseling corn,
Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
Rot on the vine: in that land were we born.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)