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Aug 31, 2015 · They wouldn't be in the lineup together again, but there were plenty more years together in uniform. Sr. was a coach with the Reds when Junior joined the team in 2000 and the pair were reunited once again with Team USA at the World Baseball Classic.
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Aug 31, 2017 · After thousands of games, many generations of players and dozens of father-son duos have passed through the well-over 100-year history of Major League Baseball. But, on Aug. 31, 1990, Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. did something no father and son had ever done before: play together in the same lineup.
Then-twenty year old Griffey Jr. was subsequently grounded by his father in the dugout after the play for breaking the former's previously established "three square feet territory" in left field for fly balls and had his car keys confiscated. [27] The duo played a total of 51 games together before Griffey Sr. retired in June 1991.
When Ken Griffey Sr. negotiated the Mariners contract of his 17-year-old son in their Cincinnati home on June 2, 1987, he didn’t expect to be playing alongside him just over three years later. “We do everything alike, except I hit more home runs,” boasted the younger Griffey to the Associated Press. “I guess it’s because of the ...
Aug 31, 1990 · Ken Griffey Sr. and his son Ken Jr. realized that opportunity on baseball’s biggest stage when they played side-by-side in the outfield for the Seattle Mariners on August 31, 1990. They became the first father-son duo to play together in a major-league game.
On Sept. 14, 1990, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey Sr. made history, as they have been known to do, when they became the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs in a game against the California Angels.
Aug 31, 2016 · But on Aug. 31, 1990, Ken Griffey Sr. and his son Ken Griffey Jr. made history when they both played for the Seattle Mariners in a game against the Kansas City Royals. At the time, Griffey Sr. was 40 years old, cut days earlier by the Cincinnati Reds after hitting just .206 over 46 games.
