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...baseball heroes were Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds and Tony Gwynn. I loved the way they carried themselves. They carried themselves with a swagger, but they weren't cocky. And just the way that they went out and they played the game was absolutely awesome. And my role models were definitely my family: my parents, my older brother and sister and my twin brother...
...imagine today’s superstars living such schedules? True, when Ken Griffey Jr. leaves to play for the Mariners this spring, he will leave behind his sprawling mansion in Windermere, Fla. (recently toured by Pablo S. Torre ’07), forced to content himself with a multi-million dollar condo overlooking Seattle. But, something in this sacrifice has been lost. When Griffey’s more arrogant brethren are turning down $25 million/year deals and wringing team owners for every penny before they agree to play the sport they treasure, it can be hard to identify respectable motives...
...just happened to be growing cartoonishly large and hitting baseballs into parts of ballparks where no baseballs had gone before. It was a freak show and baseball loved it. It was the first season in history in which four players hit 50 home runs. Greg Vaughn and Ken Griffey Jr., half of the 50-plus bombers that year, were dwarfed in size, production and attention by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Both McGwire, with 70 home runs, and Sosa, with 66, blew away the record 61 home runs of Roger Maris that had stood as the standard for 37 years...
...Perhaps no one complains about the length of spring training more than the players themselves. Ken Griffey Jr., for one, has called it "way too long." One exception is Ty Wigginton, a third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. "I believe the more pitches you see, the more at-bats you get, the better off you're going to be," he says, while adding, "I don't know too many players who agree with...
...European Champions' League is a kind of global soccer equivalent of Major League Baseball. And Beckham joining the L.A. Galaxy as the equivalent of a Ken Griffey, Jr., choosing, in the waning years of his playing career, to sign a last lucrative contract with a franchise in Japan - certainly good for the game in Japan, but more a testament to a player's declining abilities than to the talents he exhibited in his prime...