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Ken Griffey Jr. is a no-doubt first ballot Hall of Famer, his Cincinnati Reds career included

It's hard to fully relay how perfectly entwined Ken Griffey Jr. was with 1990's baseball. The Kid spent just over a year in the minors after being taken first overall in the 1987 MLB Draft, cut his teeth as the youngest player in the big leagues as a 19 year old rookie in 1989 while his dad was still in the league with the Cincinnati Reds, and as the calendar rolled over into the new decade, the writing was on the wall that he'd become one of the most dynamic two-way players the game of baseball had ever seen.