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- Updated: July 22, 2016
Whenever I think about the upcoming Hall of Fame ceremony on Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., I get chills. The word “overwhelming” comes to mind, along with the words “unbelievable” and “surrealistic.”
Now get this: I’m not the slugger with the pretty swing and the ridiculous collection of Gold Glove Awards who will spend Sunday afternoon at the Clark Sports Center waiting for his official induction into baseball immortality. Such an honor will belong to Ken Griffey Jr., otherwise known as Junior or The Kid, or as the most complete player of his generation.
Griffey will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, with coverage starting on MLB Network and MLB.com at 11 a.m. ET/8 PT. Ceremonies begin live at 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT.
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I wrote the first story ever about Griffey. He was 8 years old.
I’m still shaking my head over everything, ranging from that moment I first saw this little guy with the big cap torturing his peers 38 years ago in Cincinnati’s Knothole League, to the thought that he grew into a Major Leaguer who spent 22 seasons evolving into an icon — not just for baseball, and not only for sports, but in society.
You can make the case that Griffey made it fashionable for young people to turn the bill of their cap from front to back. OK, some would say rappers, but since I’m writing about Griffey instead of Will “The Fresh Prince” Smith, I’m sticking with the person who the Mariners made the first overall pick of the 1987 Draft. Two years later, Griffey began his Major League career, and he often flipped …
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