George Kenneth Griffey is a former professional baseball player and coach from the United States. From 1973 until 1991, he was an outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB), most famously as a member of the Cincinnati Reds dynasty, which won three division crowns and two World Series championships between 1973 and 1976. He also spent time with the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, and Seattle Mariners.

Griffey was a three-time All-Star who batted over.300 five times as the table-setter for the formidable Cincinnati batting order known as the Big Red Machine during their dominance of the National League in the mid-1970s.

Is Ken Griffey Jr’s father Ken Griffey Sr still alive?

According to some verified sources such as livingoradead.com, the American baseballer is still alive and residing in Florida.

Griffey was reared by a single mother with six children; his father, Buddy, a high school friend of another Hall of Fame outfielder, Stan Musial, abandoned the family when Griffey was two years old. In a 2016 ESPN interview, he stated that he did not see his father again until he was 16 years old.

His peers in Donora, Pennsylvania, did not believe he would become a baseball star; they thought his finest sport was football, where he was a star wide receiver.
Griffey believed football to be his favorite sport, followed by basketball, track, and, finally, baseball. He’d even compete in track meets during baseball games, sprinting up the hill between Donora High School’s baseball pitch and track in between at-bats.