Ken Griffey Jr. as told by the people

We asked and you responded. Dozens of anecdotes about The Kid to peruse on this, his Hall of Fame weekend.

Last month we solicited you, the community of Mariner fans as a whole, to share with us your experiences, stories, and legends of Ken Griffey Jr. The idea was to compile something that serves as a sort of collection, or storybook. While Lookout Landing is a place whose foundation is built on logic, and the application of the scientific process, that it uses those skills to try and better understand a futile and meaningless enterprise like baseball is a testament to something beyond that data, and perhaps even science.

Heroes are the things of children's fables, unwashed, illiterate…