There are only about half a dozen baseball memories where I can recall where I was, who I was with and quite possibly what I was drinking when "it" happened. The Dodgers Kurt Gibson's hobbling home run trot in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series is one of them.
Three others belong to Ken Griffey Jr.
In 1989, Griffey wasn't much older than me at the time. Stepping to the plate at age 19 in his first major league at bat, he lined a double in the left-center gap off Oakland's Dave Stewart. In the bottom of the 11th in Game 5 of the 1995 division series, he scored from first base on an Edgar Martinez double to left ? cementing future Mariner seasons in Seattle. In 2007, Junior was given a hero's welcome back to Seattle when his visiting Cincinnati Reds swung through town. Read the rest of this article on Assist by The Mitten.
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