Ken Griffey Jr. will join the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, an event that concludes more than six months of warranted hype after the former center fielder became a first-ballot inductee this past January by garnering a record 99.3 percent of votes.
As part of Seattlepi.com's ongoing tribute to The Kid, we caught up with a handful of current and former Mariners, all of whom were in some way influenced by Griffey's rapid ascension to stardom.
Here are their stories:
Mariners manager Scott Servais:
"OK, so I'm in Triple-A. This is about 1990 I think.