When I was a kid baseball was the sport that you played when you were young. Soccer wasn't a blip on the radar and lacrosse was a fancy east coast thing that had no business in middle America. For us, it was baseball. And if your my age, there was no better embodiment of the game, the passion, and the sweet sweet success of a picture perfect swing than Ken Griffey Jr.
So it's fitting we celebrate June 9 through a Ken Griffey Jr. lens as this day in 2008 was when he hit homer number 600. Junior would go on to hit 30 more to land him on the career list at 6th place.