Editing Ken Griffey Jr. (section)

==Early life==
Griffey was born in [[Donora, Pennsylvania]], on November 21, 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Griffey Jr., Ken |url=https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/griffey-jr-ken |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=[[Baseball Hall of Fame]]}}</ref> His family moved to [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], as his father, [[Ken Griffey Sr.]], made his MLB debut on August 25, 1973 for the [[Cincinnati Reds]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ken Griffey Sr. |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ken-griffey-sr/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=[[Society for American Baseball Research]]}}</ref> Griffey Jr. was only three years old at the time. He was in the [[Locker room|clubhouse]] during his father's back-to-back championships in the [[1975 World Series|1975]] and [[1976 World Series]]. When Griffey was a young child, his father instilled in him the pride of a team accomplishment rather than the individual performance: "My dad would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/seattle-mariners/article53375995.html|title=Ken Griffey Jr. elected to Hall of Fame|first=Elaine|last=Thompson|website=[[The News Tribune]]|date=January 6, 2016|accessdate=June 30, 2022}}</ref> An incident during his father's tenure with the [[New York Yankees]], where Griffey Jr. was told to leave the dugout while sitting with his father, while a white player's son was allowed to practice on the field, would lead to Griffey Jr. refusing to contemplate signing with the Yankees during his career.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |last=Gaines |first=Cork |last2=Davis |first2=Scott |date=June 24, 2023 |title=Ken Griffey Jr says he refused to sign with the Yankees because he felt the team discriminated against him when he was a kid |url=https://www.insider.com/ken-griffel-jr-yankees-mlb-dugout-incident |website=[[Insider.com]]}}</ref>

Griffey attended [[Moeller High School|Archbishop Moeller High School]]<ref name=":0" /> in Cincinnati, the same high school as his future teammate [[Barry Larkin]],<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Ken Griffey Jr. Stats, Bio, Photos, Highlights |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=115135&c_id=mlb#sectionType=career&statType=1&season=2010&gameType=%27R%27 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |work=[[MLB.com]]}}</ref> where he was the U.S. high school baseball player of the year in 1987. He hit .478 with 17 home runs in his two seasons of high school baseball.<ref name="attraction">{{cite news |last1=Groeschen |first1=Tom |date=July 22, 2016 |title=At Moeller, Griffey Jr. was main attraction |language=en |work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] |url=https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2016/07/22/high-school-griffey-jr-main-attraction/87429400/ |access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> Griffey also played [[American football|football]] as a [[wide receiver]] and received scholarship offers to play [[college football]] for such programs as [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]] and [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Snyder |first1=Mark |date=March 28, 2017 |title=Ken Griffey Jr. could have gone to Michigan for football |language=en |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |url=https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2017/03/28/michigan-football-ken-griffey/99738970/ |access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>