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Ken Griffey Jr. Sets Record For Highest Percentage of Hall of Fame Votes

Jan 6, 2016

Breaking News, Cincinnati Reds, Hall of Fame, Seattle Mariners

There's a new Kid in town and his name is George Kenneth Griffey Jr. On Wednesday night, the 2016 Hall of Fame inductees were announced and Ken Griffey Jr. led the class with a nearly perfect score: 437 of 4...

Hall of Fame Results: Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza Elected

Patrick Brewer

Jan 6, 2016

American League, Breaking News, Features, Hall of Fame, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Milestone, National League

January, 6th 2016. The date is finally here and the results are in. The 2016 Hall of Fame inductees have been decided. Ken Griffey and Mike Piazza have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Stars such as B...

Today ‘The Kid’ is Making Me Feel Old

Kyle Head

Jan 6, 2016

American League West, Baseball History, Features, Headlines, Seattle Mariners

Ken Griffey Jr. is now (or at least in approximately six hours) a member of the most exclusive club in professional sports, the National Baseball Hall of Fame. When Griffey gives his speech later this year, it ...

The Baseball Hall of Fame is a Museum, Not a Shrine

Michael Saltzman

Jan 5, 2016

Baseball History, Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

With the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2016 set to be announced tomorrow, there are many questions surrounding the announcement. 1. Will Ken Griffey Jr. be a unanimous vote and will he break Tom Seaver's re...

Baseball Essential Writers “Elect” Two Hall of Famers

Jeff J. Snider

Jan 2, 2016

Features, Hall of Fame, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions

The Baseball Essential Writers Association of America (BBEWAA), a group that does not actually exist, recently held it's own version of the Hall of Fame election. We at Baseball Essential are not the first onli...

Griffey and the Kids of the 90’s

Seth Poho

Nov 24, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, Seattle Mariners

Focus on Sport/Getty Images With this past Saturday being Ken Griffey Jr.'s 46th birthday, and the impending first ballot induction into the Hall of Fame coming in January, it's hard to imagine him as "Juni...

Baseball Hall of Fame Announces 2016 Candidates

Gershon Rabinowitz

Nov 9, 2015

Baseball History, Breaking News, Hall of Fame, Headlines

During the 1990's, Ken Griffey Jr. became one of the game's more revered stars and few bright spots in an era marked by labor strife and performance enhancing drug use. His fabled 22-year career became legendar...

Revisiting the 1995 Division Series

Gershon Rabinowitz

Oct 7, 2015

Baseball History, Features, New York Yankees, Postseason, Seattle Mariners

The mark of a compelling narrative is its lasting impact. Rising and falling action leads to an indelible climax and its cast of characters become renown and beloved. Their triumphs and accomplishments are reme...

Happy Mother’s Day: A Baseball Anecdote

Gabriel Bogart

May 10, 2015

Baseball History, Features

For most men, the mainstream narrative is that they learned baseball from their fathers. That sun-soaked, nearly-saccharine game of catch in the backyard with their dad. Dad taking them to games and teaching th...

Felix Hernandez: The Emerald City’s Hidden Gem

Gabriel Bogart

May 4, 2015

American League, American League West, Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions, Seattle Mariners

It was Opening Day, April 2, 2007. Wind from Puget Sound was driving the cold into the bones of everybody in the upper deck of Safeco Field. The slow-rolling roof had long since been closed, but looking out abo...

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