Top 10 moments of Griffey’s Hall of Fame career

SEATTLE — Ken Griffey Jr. created a lifetime of memories for baseball fans during his 22-year career, which will be capped Sunday by his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Here’s a look at 10 of his greatest moments.

1. Scoring on “The Double” What made Griffey great was he could beat you with his bat. He could beat you with his glove. He could beat you with his arm. And, yeah, he could beat you with his legs, which led to his most-iconic moment with the Mariners — the sight of Junior’s ear-to-ear grin at the bottom of a pile of teammates at home plate after he scored from first on what is known in Seattle as “The Double” by Edgar Martinez to beat the Yankees in the 11th inning of the deciding Game 5 of the American League Division Series on Oct. 8, 1995 in the franchise’s first postseason run.

2. Jr. and Sr. go back to back Ask Griffey what moment he most remembers in his 22-year career and this one tops the charts, for good reason. It was cool enough that Junior and his dad, Ken Griffey Sr., were able to play on the same team in Seattle in 1990. But the father-son duo delighted the baseball world on Sept. 14 that season by homering in back-to-back at-bats in the first inning off the Angels’ Kirk McCaskill.

3. No. 600 Griffey always insisted he wasn’t a home run hitter. But he kept hitting balls over walls during his career and No. 600 came with the Reds on June 9, 2008, as he belted a first-inning pitch from the Marlins’ Mark Hendrickson into the right-field seats at Dolphin Stadium to become just the sixth player in MLB history to achieve that milestone on his way to 630 for his career.

4. A catch for the ages Junior’s web gems could fill a highlight reel all their own, but one of his first defining moments as a …

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