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Ken Griffey Jr.

Chronology

1969	Born November 21 in Donora, Pennsylvania
1979	Begins playing Little League baseball
1983	Enters Cincinnati's Moeller High School
1987	Drafted on June 2 as first-round, first pick by Seattle Mariners
1987	Plays in the minors in the Northwest League on a team based in Bellingham, Washington
1988	Swallows aspirin overdose in apparent suicide attempt in January
1988	Plays in the California League for the San Bernardino Spirit
1989	Attends Mariners training camp; plays so well he earns position on roster
1989	Makes major league debut on April 3
1990	Makes baseball history in August when his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., joins the Mariners and the Griffeys become the first father-son teammates in baseball history
1994	Becomes father on January 19 when Trey Kenneth Griffey is born
1995	Becomes father again on October 21 as Taryn Kennedy Griffey is born
1995	Fractures wrist on May 26; misses 73 games
2000	Traded from Seattle Mariners to Cincinnati Reds on February 10
2000	Plagued with sore knee and partially torn hamstring throughout season
2001	Partially tears hamstring during spring training on March 26