The MLB Network documentary Junior took a closer look at the career of Ken Griffey Jr.
In the doc, Griffey himself revealed why he hated the New York Yankees so much, and it’s a really awful story.
He said that he had come up to New York to visit his father, who was playing for the Yankees in the 1980s when a security guard told the senior Griffey that then-Yankees owner George Steinbrenner “(didn’t) want anybody in the dugout.”.
So Griffey’s father sent him to sit in his locker, but he pointed out that taking ground balls at third base at that very moment was the son of Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles.
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Back in 2010, Newsday reported that in 1983, Griffey Jr. and his brother were tossed from the Yankees clubhouse because of then-manager Billy Martin.
Martin never fessed up and the Griffeys thought owner George Steinbrenner was behind the “no kids in the clubhouse’’ edict and Ken. Jr., carried that notion throughout his career. Later day reports also incorrectly cite Steinbrenner as the culprit, Newsday, 2010.
Steinbrenner, in fact, liked the Yankees’ kids, often patting them on the head in the years when he made frequent visits to the clubhouse, Newsday, 2010
Ken Griffey Jr. reveals the incident that led him to vow never to play for the Yankees
The MLB Network documentary Junior took a closer look at the career of Ken Griffey Jr.
In the doc, Griffey himself revealed why he hated the New York Yankees so much, and it’s a really awful story.
He said that he had come up to New York to visit his father, who was playing for the Yankees in the 1980s when a security guard told the senior Griffey that then-Yankees owner George Steinbrenner “(didn’t) want anybody in the dugout.”.
So Griffey’s father sent him to sit in his locker, but he pointed out that taking ground balls at third base at that very moment was the son of Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles.
.
Back in 2010, Newsday reported that in 1983, Griffey Jr. and his brother were tossed from the Yankees clubhouse because of then-manager Billy Martin.
Martin never fessed up and the Griffeys thought owner George Steinbrenner was behind the “no kids in the clubhouse’’ edict and Ken. Jr., carried that notion throughout his career. Later day reports also incorrectly cite Steinbrenner as the culprit, Newsday, 2010.
Steinbrenner, in fact, liked the Yankees’ kids, often patting them on the head in the years when he made frequent visits to the clubhouse, Newsday, 2010