{"id":452,"date":"2010-06-16T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-06-16T03:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:09:49","slug":"remembering-the-kid-ken-griffey-jr-on-the-cover-of-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/452","title":{"rendered":"Remembering &#8220;The Kid:&#8221; Ken Griffey, Jr. on the cover of Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/376\" target=\"_blank\">Griff&#8217;s homage to &#8220;The Kid,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/griffke02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Griffey, Jr.<\/a>, I have been brainstorming about how to do something similar.\u00a0 My first thought was to scan each and every Griffey card that I have; Griffey cards have always been the shit and were a staple of my childhood.\u00a0 Other than <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.cachefly.net\/quiz\/uploads\/1207660347623.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">his rookie card<\/a>, I can&#8217;t remember a Junior card that portrayed him as anything less than legendary- they all proclaimed that we were watching one of the greatest players of all time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I passed on that idea.\u00a0 I have far too many cards for such an undefined idea.\u00a0 Griffey might give his Hall of Fame acceptance speech before I finish a project of such proportions.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s second best? What&#8217;s something that captures the development and appreciation of Junior like baseball cards did? Well, I ultimately landed on <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/home\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated covers<\/a>.\u00a0 Without further delay, here is the career of Ken Griffey, Jr. as it has been so perfectly displayed by <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/?eref=fromvlt\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_457\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/9224\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457  \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"0507_large\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/0507_large-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 7, 1990 - Photographed by Richard Mackson <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_458\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/9505\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-458\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-458   \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"griffey2_si\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/griffey2_si1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">October 16, 1995 - Photographed by Richard Mackson <\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_459\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/11233\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"griffey3_si\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/griffey3_si1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 11, 1998 - Photographed by Tom DiPace \/ SI<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_460\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/9691\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-460  \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"griffey4_si\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/griffey4_si1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 17, 1999 - Photographed by V.J. Lovero<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_461\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/9729\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"griffey5_si\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/griffey5_si-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 21, 2000 - Photographed by Walter Iooss, Jr. <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_462\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/featured\/9993\/index.htm\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"griffey6_si\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/griffey6_si-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 14, 2004 - Photographed by: John Biever <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time for another.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read Griff&#8217;s homage to &#8220;The Kid,&#8221; Ken Griffey, Jr., I have been brainstorming about how to do something similar.\u00a0 My first thought was to scan each and every Griffey card that I have; Griffey cards have always been the shit and were a staple of my childhood.\u00a0 Other than his rookie card, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,13],"tags":[506,505,511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}