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- Updated: July 21, 2016
PITTSBIRGH — Brewers hitting coach Darnell Coles will be busy Sunday morning getting players ready for the finale of a three-game series against the Cubs. But if time allows, you can bet he will find a television tuned to MLB Network.
Ken Griffey Jr., a favorite teammate of Coles’ with the Mariners in 1989 and ’90, will be inducted along with Mike Piazza in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Coles witnessed the beginning of Griffey’s greatness firsthand.
“It started with him doing this,” said Coles, spinning his cap around backward. “He knew what he represented as far as the way his dad played, and where he came from meant a great deal. He meant so much to two cities. But within all of that, he was the most generous person you were ever going to meet.”
Coles, as he usually does, offered an anecdote.
“I …
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