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Ken Griffey Jr
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SEATTLE -- He was perhaps at the lowest point of his elite career. He'd become a punchline after being accused of sleeping through a game. His team was skidding toward oblivion. Then, Ken Griffey Jr. awakened.
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I grew up watching him. I know what he did for baseball in Seattle," said [Mark Hendrickson], who grew up in Mount Vernon. "It's just one of those things where Fm going to pitch to these guys and don't back down from it. "It's emotional to see the kid I saw running around with my sons in the clubhouse in Cincin-nati hit his 600th home run," said Tony Perez, a player on those teams who now is a Marlins executive. "I'm sorry it came against us ... but it's emotional and it brings back a lot of memories." "My dad was the guy I wanted to be like. If you look at his career he had a pretty good career - that's the guy who looked like me, acted like me, took care of me. I didn't think Td be better than him. He said I would be. I was like, 'yeah, right.' I was 14 when he said it. Sometimes Da...
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SEATTLE - Ken Griffey Jr. retired Wednesday night, ending one of the great careers in baseball history. The 40-year-old Griffey told the Mariners that he was done playing, and Manager Don Wakamatsu made the announcement before Seattle faced Minnesota.
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CINCINNATI - Suggestions that the struggling Cincinnati Reds might trade outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. during the season are premature, general manager Walt Jocketty said Tuesday without ruling out that it could happen. The 38-year-old outfielder is in the final guaranteed year of his contract. The Reds have an option to keep him next year for $16.5 million, and could buy out the option for $4 million.
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Ken Griffey Jr. is playing in Seattle this weekend for the first time since leaving the Mariners prior to the 2000 season. Here are some facts you likely know about the future Hall of Famer, but maybe a few you don't:
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Hal McCoy, the hall-of-fame baseball writer for the Dayton Daily News, knows a thing or two about America's favorite pastime. If you want to tap into that knowledge, send him an e-mail at hmccoy@d aytondailynews.com.
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Even as a once-in-a-generation baseball prodigy, Bryce Harper is still far removed from the big leagues. As a high school sophomore, according to many scouts, he was more advanced than Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez were as high school seniors. At age 16, he hit the longest home run in Tropicana Field history and, as a pitcher, threw fastballs clocked at 96 mph.
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He once was The Kid, a fun-loving cherub who reached the majors at the age of 19 and became an All-Star at the age of 20. He spent his mid-20s as one of the best players in baseball, piecing together what seemed destined to become one of the greatest careers in the history of the game. 500 homers? 600? 800? At one point in time, nothing seemed out of reach for Ken Griffey Jr.
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On Friday, the Cincinnati Reds announced that outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. has suffered a broken right hand in "an accident at home." It is another in a line of injuries Griffey has suffered since his celebrated return to his hometown in 2000. Included below are his stays on the disabled list in his time with the Reds: - April 29-June 14, 2001 -- Torn left hamstring. Griffey originally tweaked the hamstring in a spring training game on March 26 then aggravated the injury running out a check-swing ground ball in Denver. To replace him, the Reds purchased the contract of outfielder Deion Sanders from Class AAA Louisville.
