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He was the father of Ken Griffey Sr. and the grandfather of Ken Griffey Jr. The Griffeys (Ken Sr. and Ken Jr.) became the first father-and-son tandem to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time. They played their first game together for the Seattle Mariners on August 31, 1990 against the Kansas City Royals. [21]
In the 1989 Upper Deck baseball set, Ken Griffey Jr. was selected to be featured on card number one. [28] The decision to make Griffey Jr. the first card was reached in late 1988. A teenage employee named Tom Geideman was the one who suggested the use of Griffey as its choice for the number-one card. [ 29 ]
Ken Griffey Jr. made his major league baseball debut on opening day, April 3, against the defending American League champion Oakland Athletics. [3] [4] Griffey hit a double in his first at-bat. [2] [3] During the 1989 season, Griffey was honored by being selected as card number one in the 1989 Upper Deck baseball card set.
Ken Griffey Jr. surprised future MLB stars with a photoshoot in Arizona. (Illustration by Stefan Milic/Yahoo Sports, photos by Jordan Shusterman/Yahoo Sports) (Stefan Milic/Yahoo Sports)
Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball is a Super NES baseball game that was released in 1994. The game has a Major League Baseball (MLB) license but not a Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) license, meaning that the game has real stadiums and real teams, but not real players (except ...
James Beckett III (born May 10, 1949) is an American statistician, author, editor, and publisher. His publications are well known in the hobby of sports card collecting. Beckett earned a Ph.D. degree in statistics at Southern Methodist University in 1975 and then joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University as an associate professor.
Price guides are used mostly to list the prices of different baseball cards in many different conditions. One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series. The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest.
Genre (s) Sports. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr. is a baseball video game developed by Angel Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The game is a follow-up to Nintendo's previous title featuring Griffey, Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run. It was released in 1998, and allows ...