Ken Griffey Jr. is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on November 21, 1969 in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States. 13-time MLB All-Star and 1997 AL MVP who retired with 630 career home runs and is considered to be one of the best center fielders to ever play the game. He spent the first 11 years of his career with the Seattle Mariners, then his next nine injury-plagued years with the Cincinnati Reds.
He played alongside star shortstop Alex Rodriguez on the Seattle Mariners.
Griffey was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, on November 21, 1969. (He shares a birthday with another Donora native and Hall-of-Famer, Stan Musial.) His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father, Ken Griffey Sr., played for the Cincinnati Reds, when Ken Jr. was six years old. Ken Jr. was in the clubhouse during his father’s back-to-back championships in the 1975 and 1976 World Series. As a young child, Ken Sr. would instill in his son the pride of a team accomplishment rather than the individual performance. “My dad would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.” He attended Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati (the same high school as his future teammate Barry Larkin), where he was the U.S high school baseball player of the year in 1987. Griffey hit .478 with 17 home runs in his two seasons of high school baseball.
George Kenneth 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). He spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, along with a short stint with the Chicago White Sox. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a 13-time All-Star, Griffey is one of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history; his 630 home runs rank as the seventh-most in MLB history. Griffey was also an exceptional defender and won 10 Gold Glove Awards in center field. He is tied for the record of most consecutive games with a home run (eight, with Don Mattingly and Dale Long).
He has two sons, Trey Kenneth and Tevin Kendall, and a daughter, Taryn Kennedy, with his wife Melissa. Trey signed with the Colts in 2017.
