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Ken Griffey, Sr. and Ken Griffey, Jr. were the only other father-son duo to do so ( with the Seattle Mariners, on August 31, 1990 ).
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On a positive note, the home run chase between Sosa, McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr. helped professional baseball to bring in a new crop of fans as well as bringing back some fans who had been disillusioned by the 1994 strike.
The gesture was originally the idea of outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr., who sought Rachel Robinson's permission to wear the number.
On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.
On August 22, 2007, as part of the Golden Anniversary of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Clemente was selected to the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team, joining his onetime mentor, Willie Mays, and his indirect disciple, Ken Griffey Jr .,.
In 2003, he was part of an advertising campaign for Armour hot dogs with MLB players Ken Griffey, Jr., Derek Jeter, and Sammy Sosa.
The game-winning hit in Game 5, in which Edgar Martinez drove home Ken Griffey, Jr. to win the game in the 11th inning, clinched a series win for the Mariners, and has since become an iconic moment in team history.
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The players and languages featured were Ken Griffey Jr. ( English ), Alex Rodriguez ( Spanish ), Chan Ho Park ( Korean ), Kazuhiro Sasaki ( Japanese ), Graeme Lloyd ( English, with an Australian accent ), Eric Gagne ( French ), Andruw Jones ( Dutch ), John Franco ( Italian ), Ivan Rodriguez ( Spanish ), and Mark McGwire ( English ).
* November 21 – Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player
George Kenneth " Ken " Griffey, Jr. ( born November 21, 1969 ), nicknamed " Junior " and " The Kid ", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for three teams ( 1989 – 2010 ).
Considered a five-tool player for much of a career, the Associated Press noted after his retirement: " In his prime, Ken Griffey Jr. was unanimously considered the best player in baseball.
He is the son of former MLB player Ken Griffey, Sr.
His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where father Ken Griffey, Sr. played for the Cincinnati Reds when Jr. was six.
One of Ken Griffey, Jr. signature sneakers, the Nike Air Griffey Max.
Griffey may have escalated it by saying that he would never play for the Yankees, because the Yankees allegedly treated his father, Ken Griffey Sr. badly.
The play also inspired the title of the video game Ken Griffey, Jr .' s Winning Run for the Super Nintendo.
On July 16, 2007, Ken Griffey, Jr. hit his 587th home run to pass Frank Robinson for 6th place on the all-time home run list.
In 1987, Mattingly tied Dale Long's major league record by hitting home runs in eight consecutive games ( record later tied again by Ken Griffey, Jr., of Seattle in 1993 ), as well as stroking an extra base hit in ten consecutive games.
Hall of Famer Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals and baseball greats Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr., orthodox metropolitan Vladimir ( Nagosky ) were all born in Donora.
* Ken Griffey, Jr., former Seattle Mariners player, also known as " The Kid " by longtime Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus
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Among the Yankees in attendance for the game were Billy Martin, Yogi Berra, Goose Gossage, Ken Griffey, Sr., Dave Winfield, Lou Piniella, and Willie Randolph.
In the top of the ninth, the Reds brought in the go-ahead run on a Joe Morgan single that scored Ken Griffey, Sr., winning what is regarded as one of the greatest World Series ever played.
Musial also played one season on the newly revived Donora High School baseball team, where one of his teammates was Buddy Griffey, father of MLB player Ken Griffey, Sr. and grandfather to MLB player Ken Griffey, Jr.
Ken Griffey, Sr. was married to Alberta Griffey, also known as " Birdie " Griffey.
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Rookie and future-Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson headed the team, which at its peak featured Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Pérez, and was supported by Dave Concepción, George Foster, César Gerónimo and Ken Griffey, Sr.
* Ken Griffey, Sr., who played from 1973 to 1991 for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, and Seattle Mariners
Players who combined power and speed like Joe Morgan, Pete Rose and Ken Griffey, Sr. thrived there.
By 1975 Concepción joined Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Ken Griffey, Sr., George Foster and César Gerónimo in the famous " Great Eight " starting lineup of The Big Red Machine that would help the Reds win the next two World Series titles.
In 1974, the Reds dealt Tolan, moved Geronimo to center, and placed a young Ken Griffey Sr. in right.
Shane played on the same football team as Trey Griffey, the son of Ken Griffey Jr., another Cincinnati Moeller Graduate, and the grandson of Ken Griffey Sr.
The Reds transitioned from players including Ken Griffey Sr., George Foster, and Ray Knight, taking their chances with players including Milner, Gary Redus, and Clint Hurdle.
* In the 11th inning of Game Six of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, Evans made a spectacular running catch deep in the right field corner near Pesky's Pole, robbing Joe Morgan of a home run, then doubled Ken Griffey, Sr. off first.
On October 4, Raines, Jr. played center field and Raines, Sr. played left field for Baltimore, becoming the second father and son team to play for the same major league team ( a feat previously accomplished by Ken Griffey, Sr. and Ken Griffey, Jr .).
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It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
Lee Jackson and Ken Smith, both of Houston, and Alfred Neumann of Beaumont seated guests.
`` I thought I'd smooth things over through Ken '', Wally said miserably.
`` But Ken got coy and wouldn't make any promises.
* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
* 1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor ( d. 2003 )
The second of the so-called J-missions, the mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.
On the surface, Young and Duke collected of lunar samples for return to Earth, while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited in the Command / Service Module above to perform observations.
Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.
Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly reported a " gimbal lock " warning light, indicating the craft was not reporting an attitude.
Flight day seven was to be Young's and Duke's third and final day on the lunar surface, for they would return to orbit to rejoin Ken Mattingly in the Command / Service Module following the day's moonwalk.
Young and Duke, in the LM, successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Ken Mattingly, who had remained in orbit to perform observations while his fellow crewmembers explored the surface, in the Command / Service Module.
Ken Mattingly performs his deep-space EVA, retrieving film cassettes from the CSM's exterior.
At a distance of about from Earth, Ken Mattingly, the Command Module Pilot, performed a " deep-space " extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk, during which he retrieved several film cassettes from the CSM's SIM bay.
New York investment banker Ken Langone assembled the initial group of investors.
The investors include equal partners Ken Kendrick, Mike Chipman, and Jeffrey Royer.
Ken Kendrick became the managing general partner.
Korner made his first official record on Decca Records DFE 6286 in the company of Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group.
* 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )
Additional cast included Chip Zien, Ken Page, and Harvey Evans, the only original cast member to reprise his role.
1990s architects such as William McDonough and Ken Yeang applied environmentally responsible building design to large commercial buildings, such as office buildings, making them largely self-sufficient in energy production.
English voiceless stops are aspirated for most native speakers when they are word-initial or begin a stressed syllable, as in pen, ten, Ken.
Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.
In 1993, Clinton was selected as Time " Man of the Year ", and again in 1998, along with Ken Starr.
Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.
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