| LC control no. | n 91062187 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Griffey, Ken, Jr. |
| Variant(s) | Griffey, George Kenneth, Jr. Junior (Baseball player) Kid (Baseball player) |
| Other standard no. | 0000000029409310 58257468 Q536900 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Seattle (Wash.) Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Birth date | 1969-11-21 |
| Place of birth | Donora (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | Seattle Mariners (Baseball team) Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team) National League of Professional Baseball Clubs National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Baseball players Outfielders (Baseball) |
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| Found in | Ken Griffey, father and son, 1991: CIP galley (Ken Griffey Jr. started playing baseball in the majors when he was 19; three years old in 1973) Post, First collector series baseball card, c1990: back (Ken Griffey Jr.; b. 11-21-69, Donora, Pa.; Seattle Mariners outfielder) Ken Griffey, Jr., & Ken Griffey, Sr., 1995: CIP t.p. (Ken Griffey, Jr.) galley (George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Griffey, Ken, Jr.; George Kenneth Griffey Jr.; major league baseball player; born 21 Nov. 1969 in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States; finished Cincinnati's Moeller High School; played the 1987 season for the Mariners' Bellingham (Washington) baseball team in the short-season Northwest League; played for the San Bernardino club in the California League, the Mariners' Vermont farm club in the Class AA Eastern League; the Seattle Mariners; the National League's Cincinnati Reds; the Chicago White Sox; leading vote getter on the American League All-Star squad; retired from baseball in May 2010, with 630 home runs; In 2009 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Griffey, Jr. an American Public Diplomacy Envoy) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum website, 29 May, 2021: Ken Griffey Jr. entry (George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.; inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016) <https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/griffey-jr-ken> Wikipedia, 29 May 2021: entry for Ken Griffey, Jr. (George Kenneth Griffey Jr., born November 21, 1969, nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid"; an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB); Griffey spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds; in 2016, Griffey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, receiving 99.32% of the vote, breaking pitcher Tom Seaver's record of 98.84%, a record that stood for twenty four years) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Griffey_Jr.> |
| Associated language | eng |
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