The Kid | The Story Behind Ken Griffey Jr.

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2 жыл бұрын

A generation of baseball fans grew up idolizing and emulating him, a prodigy more talented and more captivating than the game had ever seen - a fearsome slugger and sublime center fielder who assaulted the record books and ultimately did the impossible: He made baseball cool.
He did it with his swing. He did it with his smile. And he did it with his swagger.
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@lionelrust4896 2 жыл бұрын

How did 3 baseball writers think he didn't deserve to be in the hall of fame?

@muhammadrifqi7308 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, babe ruth didn't get close to 99% of the votes when he was inducted. BBWAA are notoriously inconsistent for a long time.

@tremelthelegacy6715 2 жыл бұрын

They were idiots....

@tylerhildebrand5110 2 жыл бұрын

They were Yankees fans

@TheKrazyk2010 2 жыл бұрын

They must have really looked at his Cincinnati years

@ahogg5960 2 жыл бұрын

Some writers believe noone should be elected on the first ballot. Because they're idiots. I guess even those three fogeys showed up for Mariano Rivera.

@hectorlopez1069 2 жыл бұрын

One of the players to never used steroids in his baseball career. The best in the sport of baseball.

@panagenesis2695 Жыл бұрын

💯

@hectorlopez1069 2 жыл бұрын

The only thing about him, that is missing, is his world series ring. He truly deserves at least one championship.

@AyeshaTheGreat 2 жыл бұрын

Junior Griffey had me wishing I was a lefty. That batting stance is legendary. He was the first baseball player that I really liked who didn't play for my home team. I loved his smile and backwards cap. Thanks for the video.

@FlightNSurf 2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia! I remember stepping up to the plate as a kid thinking i was KG Jr. The stance, the backwards cap. All of it!

@charismatic9904 2 жыл бұрын

Same. Usually I was KG jr. If someone claimed him then I was gary Sheffield just because I loved his stance and the little bat wiggle.

@markymark718 2 жыл бұрын

@@charismatic9904 I was Mo Vaughn that's a batting stance

@Air2theRon 2 жыл бұрын

so enjoyable! this was the first 20min segment i lost track of in a long time...sports is a great escape with the craziness in the world

@techwood16 2 жыл бұрын

It definitely is a great escape

@deenyce2216 Жыл бұрын

He is one of the best baseball players I’ve ever seen. Man if it wasn’t for those injuries on the second half of his career.

@rocketvanpersie163 2 жыл бұрын

Jr and McGwire(before I knew about the steroids) were the players that made me fall in love with baseball. Glad that steroids were never mentioned in the same sentence as Jr. dude was just different

@LakeLyfe315 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best all around players ever and hands down the smoothest swing there ever was!

@andrewj305079 2 жыл бұрын

90s goat

@robertamore9433 2 жыл бұрын

Griffey the goat 🐐 greatest baseball player of all time

@kidtae1 2 жыл бұрын

Every kid in East Oakland Babe Ruth imitated his batting stance. He was a legend to all of us

@terrywarnold Күн бұрын

Ohhhh that swing!!!!!! I got into baseball a little bit during his Seattle days. I started batting left handed cause of him and TRIED to pattern my swing after him. By the time I was hitting my latter teenage years though, I became more focused on basketball.

@hitokiriibattousaii 4 ай бұрын

Easily my favorite swing I've ever seen in baseball, the Kid is a legend

@hectorlopez1069 2 жыл бұрын

JR could do anything on the field, hit homeruns, robbed homeruns and steal bases. A goat of MLB of the 90s.

@baseline-G Жыл бұрын

No clutch moments! Mariners were a better team without him... Nothing great about a losing baseball team

@craigugulini3409 2 жыл бұрын

He hit home runs like he was juiced to the gills like the rest of them the only difference was he wasn’t juicing at all and put up the same kind of numbers as guys trying to get an edge….it’s actually one of the most amazing athletic feats I think

@maxagabon18 2 жыл бұрын

Being from LA, my favorite player growing up was Piazza but I always tried to play like Ken Griffey Jr ;)

@sincity91809 Жыл бұрын

I love this comment!!! Real baseball fan! Those were the GLORY days !!!!

@Brians_C8 Жыл бұрын

The best to play the game

@GeorgeYoung-uh5by 10 ай бұрын

Without all those injuries JR. Has the most homeruns ever. He also was a tremendous outfielder. 10 golden gloves. In my day after 1960 Jr is the best. Over Mays Aaron and Mantle. If he didnt have all those games he missed in the last half of his career. He might be the best ever.

@markjackson6431 2 жыл бұрын

wish he broke the HR single season record

@rogercormier4569 Жыл бұрын

When it looks & feels that smooth & effortless. 1 can only dream to be that guy❤️‍🔥⚾️ 24

@ragecage2011 Жыл бұрын

They need to make a movie out of this story!!!! Would be bigger than Brian's song

@justinbuda2352 Жыл бұрын

I loved Junior, when he got traded to the reds I was happy (they are one of my favorite teams Braves ass the other). Yes his injuries in Cincy hurt his career but god that swing…..the sweetest swing in baseball.

@jdestiny7779 Жыл бұрын

I always remember me and probably 5 of my team mates as kids playing baseball all wearing our hats backwards and copying his stance as best as we could. What a legend

@volkonrubenstien5633 Жыл бұрын

He will get the love he deserves in the hobby

@noelranger7 2 жыл бұрын

I love this Channel

@danotto8970 Жыл бұрын

Legend

@YouCallThataKnife253 2 жыл бұрын

To this day, I can't hold a bat any other way. I don't even play baseball

@SpaceFox93 Жыл бұрын

Anybody know what game that was at 15:24? Jr. absolutely murdered that baseball.

@yoinkhaha 2 жыл бұрын

Well I doubt if there’ll ever be another instance of back-to-back homers by father and son…

@obarbeito 2 жыл бұрын

The best player that ever lived, until the injury bug.

@williamkoscielniak7871 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the most likable, and possibly the best slugger, but he wasn't the greatest player. Bonds and Trout are at least two players who are undeniably better than Griffey.

@brennanhartnell232 2 жыл бұрын

Trout is not undeniably better.

@williamkoscielniak7871 2 жыл бұрын

@@brennanhartnell232 How not? He leads the league in on base, OPS, and OPS+ basically every other year on average. Griffey never lead the league once in any of those categories. He also led the league in stolen bases one year, which is something Griffey never did. Griffey slugged a bit better and was a better defender, but I don't see how that can make up for being so much more productive as far as getting on base and then running the bases as well as he does.

@walterbison 3 ай бұрын

@15:48 Video over. Him demanding a trade to the Reds was his biggest mistake and his time with the Reds is a blight on his career.

@diegoblanco5199 2 жыл бұрын

A huge example for people with gigantism

@siniister710 2 жыл бұрын

griffey content poggies

@Brand-ju4jm 2 жыл бұрын

didnt know griffey sr lust missed on the 1990 ws reds team

@bryanglynn9532 Жыл бұрын

That “double” was and is actually referred to as “the 95 slide”. Someone even named a sports bar after it.

@williamkoscielniak7871 2 жыл бұрын

Griffey was an all-time great, and probably the 2nd best player of his era behind Bonds, although Big Frank has a case to right there with him at number 2. Jr. would have most likely ended his career with the most homeruns ever had he not had all the injuries. Literally the only thing that I don't love about Griffey is his sometimes overly zealot fanbase. I've had people call me an idiot for making the obvious claim that Barry Bonds and Mike Trout are better players. Anyone who knows the slightest thing about baseball knows that Griffey isn't quite at the level of those two, but of course he's still an all-time great and one of the best all around players ever.

@lachlaneberle2889 Жыл бұрын

Well if Griffey wasn't so injury prone in the last half of his career he would probably have a pretty strong case to be the goat. - Likely HR king, as in the couple seasons where he was even remotely healthy he hit 35 and 30 homers at the ages of 35 and 37 showing the the power and swing never left -Likely over 3000 hits -RBIs leader -Probably a couple more gold gloves in center if he wasn't sapped of his athleticism and might have been able to grab one to to in a corner OF spot later in career. - And no steroid allegations making the sheer numbers even more impressive for his era But I do understand your stance even though I still can't say Trout is better yet and I believe the steroid use hurts Bonds in terms of being compared to Griffey Jr but not the rest of the players from his era and I do think he was juicing earlier than he says just not on the same level as he was late.

@justinbuda2352 Жыл бұрын

Bonds was great, but ironically enough bonds never had 50 home runs in a season except the year he hit 73. I would love to have seen where Junior finished if he wasn’t injured later in his career

@tiemann55 Жыл бұрын

I watched him when he was in Cincinnati . He was overpaid and full of himself by then , but I still think he’s the greatest player of all time

@Quayleman Жыл бұрын

You didn't mention A Rod... Cause pretty sure he was the reason he left Seattle.

@baseline-G Жыл бұрын

Played 22 years of MLB baseball. His teams went to the playoffs in: 1995, 1997 & 2008. His great play, unfortunately didn't translate to winning... Mariners record in 1998 was 76-85, 1999 was 79-83... Mariners trade Griffey to Cincinnati on February 11, 2000... In 2000 the Mariners were 91-71, in 2001 were 116-46... The Griffey trade literally ruined the Reds for the next 10 years... THE GREATEST TRADE IN MARINERS HISTORY!!!!!...