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Ken Griffey Jr is a baseball player from Cincinnati who has played for the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox and the Seattle Mariners. The 39-year-old Griffey is a center fielder, and known for his home-run hitting power. He ranks fifth in home runs, and is tied for first place on the list of those who’ve made home runs in the most consecutive games. In late 2008, Griffey became a free agent. His father was baseball player Ken Griffey Sr. who played for Cincinnati.

Ken Griffey Jr started his career with the Seattle Mariners and played there for 11 distinguished and successful seasons. Not known for just home runs and his effortless swing, he was also lauded as a great defensive player, able to dive and slide when necessary and make difficult catches, often leaping high to catch a ball before it could become a home run.

The Seattle stadium that was built to replace the Kingdome, known as Safeco field, is often referred to as The House that Griffey Built. He was an all-star, won numerous awards and made numerous lists of all-time great baseball players while he played for the Mariners. He was even named to the All-Century team in 1999. That same year Ken Griffey Jr. asked to be traded to the Cincinnati Reds, the team his father played for, so he could live closer to his relatives.

He began playing for the Reds during the 2000 season, but with less impressive numbers than his previous years with Seattle. Frequent injuries caused problems for Ken Griffey Jr and slowed him down on the field. In 2004, he became the 20th player ever to make 500 career home runs. In a fitting moment, he made that home run on Father’s Day, with Ken Griffey Sr. watching from the stands in a hit that also tied him with his father’s career hits record of 2, 143. But he finished the year on the injured list.

Despite injuries that benched him throughout the years, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th home run, making him one of only 6 players in baseball history to do so, on June 9, 2008. In July, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox, and by September, had added to his home runs to his 611, making him 5th on the all time list. In October, the Sox declined his expensive contract option, and he became a free agent.

His memorabilia is popular among baseball fans, especially those who are still watching and waiting to see what team he’ll play for next. Petitions were signed by fans who wanted him back to his original baseball home with the Seattle Mariners. Autographed photos of him as well as jerseys and caps are popular items you can find places like eBay. Just be sure to compare the signature with one you know to be authentic to avoid buying a forgery. A photo, signature, or ball hit by Ken Griffey Jr could be the crowning jewel in a baseball collection

Originally posted 2008-12-27 10:23:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Some people begin to create a sports memorabilia collection to create a hobby, and other people decide to put together a sports memorabilia collection for the sole purpose of eventually selling their memorabilia off later. Some people, then, specially build up their sports memorabilia collection full of specifically chosen items that are considered to be sound investments that they can sell off in the future with an increased value. People that are not serious about their sports memorabilia collection being sold in the near future can pass their sports memorabilia collection off to their children or other loved ones as it grows.

The majority of people building up a sports memorabilia collection actually began simply by collecting simple collectibles such as baseball cards of their absolute favorite baseball players for example. Now they may be focusing on different items for their sports memorabilia collection such as vintage baseball cards, retired player cards, rookie cards, and baseball cards for players that have just recently been indicted into the Hall of Fame. Other collectors all together may focus on a much wider range of sports memorabilia collection memorabilia while still focusing on a certain player, a certain sport, a certain era or something else that interests them. Some collectors choose a specific team within the sport, while others are simply happy with a broad sports memorabilia collection based on a single sport.

Collectors that put together their own sports memorabilia collections together often do so in order to make a statement about who they are. Each of the pieces of memorabilia that they collect will tell a unique and specific story about who they are, and some of these pieces in their sports memorabilia collection may even signify something important that happened to the collector or within the sport throughout history. Since creating a sports memorabilia collection depends greatly on the individual collector and their unique interests, their sports memorabilia collection should absolutely consist of items that interest them in some way or another. Collectors may decide to collect autographed items, historical items, equipment, baseball cards, items with significance and so on and so forth.

People that put a sports memorabilia collection together for the purpose of investing generally try to acquire items that are more unique, more vintage and more rare so that they can be sold in the future for an increase in profit. The market today is becoming overrun with some items but there are still some truly unique items that are out there and can help an investor earn a profit. This means that there are still ample opportunities for building a sports memorabilia collection that will net you a profit in the future.

If you are thinking about building a sports memorabilia collection, the first thing that you need to determine is what reason you want to collect for, so you know what items to obtain for your sports memorabilia collection.

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Originally posted 2009-08-25 05:07:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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