GenX Classic Sports

Episode 72: Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. Hit Back-to-Back Home runs.

Shon Enis Season 1 Episode 72

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Welcome to GenX Classic Sports, the podcast where we revisit the unforgettable athletes, teams, and moments that shaped our sports memories growing up. 

On September 14, 1990, baseball delivered one of its most unlikely—and unforgettable—moments when Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. stepped into the same lineup for the Seattle Mariners and did the unthinkable: hit back-to-back home runs in the same inning. 

It wasn’t just a statistical oddity, it was a collision of eras—Griffey Sr., a veteran of the Big Red Machine and a two-time World Series champion, nearing the end of his career, and Griffey Jr., a rising 20-year-old superstar who would go on to define the 1990s with his effortless swing and Hall of Fame résumé. In a single swing sequence, father and son didn’t just share the field—they shared baseball history. 

This episode of GenX Classic Sports dives into the careers that led them there, the improbable setup that made it possible, and why that one inning still feels like a moment the sport was never supposed to produce—but somehow did.🎙️⚾

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Production Credits:

Intro and outro music: Mason Enis

Narrator: Haylee Wolf

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