This week, a famous dad from Donora, PA...it's Ken Griffey, Sr! Griffey was a three time all star, won two World Series as part of the Big Red Machine, yet was the third best player born in Donora. The other two were Stan Musial...and Ken's son! Ken grew up in Donora, one of six kids raised by a single mom in the aftermath of a pollution disaster and the collapse of the steel industry. His dad Buddy played high school ball with Stan the Man, but left the family when Ken was just 2. Ken took that hurt and made a point to be there for his kids...all the way to the Majors.
Topics: Clean Air Act, video sleuthing, fathers and sons
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Links:
- Card 443 on Beckett
- SABR Bio by Charles F. Faber
- Donora Smog Disaster
- Grandma's Reds Scorebook Griffey entries
- Ken and Buddy story
- Reds 1976 All-Star Game highlights
- Stan and Ken and Donora, PA
- Ken Griffey Jr and Jackie Robinson Day
- Father-Son back to back jacks:
- Griffey wins the 1980 ASG MVP:
- Braves at Mets, Apr. 11, 1987:
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