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- Updated: August 8, 2016
SEATTLE — Just as the Ken Griffey Jr. celebration came to a close with the Mariners’ 3-1 victory over the Angels on Sunday, the Safeco Field crowd watched Ichiro Suzuki lace his 3,000th Major League hit on the videoboard to complete quite a weekend for the Seattle baseball legends.
And Griffey, who played with Ichiro in his final two seasons with the Mariners in 2009-10, relished seeing his former teammate and friend achieve his own march into the history books. The sometimes aloof Ichiro let his guard down around Griffey, calling him “George” in reference to his given name of George Kenneth Griffey Jr., and the two often teased each other and engaged in clubhouse wrestling matches that almost always ended with Ichiro cackling as Griffey bearhugged and tickled him mercilessly.
“I got a first-row seat to watching one of the greatest ballplayers ever to play,” Griffey said of his time with the Japanese star in Seattle. “The thing about sports is, it doesn’t matter where you’re from. If you can play this sport, you can flat play.
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