What can you say?! One of the best true hitters the league has ever seen. Great rinse him in the Hall of Fame!9

Continuing my Sweet Spot auto posts, seems to be a reasonable time to post Ichiro - one shy of a unanimous HOF induction. That one writer who didn’t vote for him must have been smoking crack! He was amazing. And he did it all with grace. Never getting his first MLB hit until age 27. Wild. MVP his rookie year, too!

Hunter was only 20-years-old in 1966 when he made the AL all-star roster. Only Dwight Gooden, Bob Feller & Bryce Harper were younger when they received their first all-star selections.

Since they last posted, the Derek Jeter sweet spot autograph, I thought I’d post the Ken Griffey, Jr. sweet spot autograph as well. For some reason, I prefer Griffey cards in his Mariners uniform, even though he played about half of his career for the Reds. His most prolific seasons came with Seattle. It’s not quite as bad as Jordan items in a wizards uniform but it still hits different when I have players in the teams’ uniforms that I remember the most.

What a player he was and by all accounts, a tremendous person too. I was not a Cubs fan as a kid, but in 1984, everyone became a Ryne Sandberg fan, and I remember rooting for Chicago in the playoffs because of him and being sad when they lost. RIP Ryno.