Ken Griffey, Jr.

This article is about the character. For the guest star, see Ken Griffey, Jr..

Ken Griffey, Jr.

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Hair: Black Occupation: Baseball player First appearance: "Homer at the Bat" Voiced by: Himself

Ken Griffey, Jr. is a baseball player who was one of the players in the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team.

History

Waylon Smithers, Jr. went to see Ken Griffey, Jr. to ask him to come work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant so that he could join the softball team. He was the new lunchroom cashier for the Power Plant. When Bart and Ralph were picking players for a softball game, Ralph picks Ken Griffey, Jr. Griffey Jr. later becomes addicted to Brain & Nerve Tonic and has a huge overdose, causing him to get the side effect of gigantism and causing him to miss the final game against Shelbyville.

He is also one of the many people on "Ned's List of Laudable Lefties".

Non-canon

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed.

A clip of Ken Griffey, Jr. with gigantism was seen.

Ken Griffey, Jr. attended the premiere of The Simpsons season finale at the Dolby-Mucinex Theater in Los Angeles.

Appearances

• Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
• Special – Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson (archive footage)
• Couch gag – "Bart's Not Dead" (archive footage)
• Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" (opening sequence)
• Episode – "Bart's Birthday"
• Book – Flanders' Book of Faith (mentioned)

References

Athletes

Baseball players Sandy Alomar • Cap Anson • Flash Bailor • Sal Bando • Johnny Bench • Wade Boggs • Barry Bonds • Mordecai Brown • Bill Buckner • Brett Butler • José Canseco • Roger Clemens • Ty Cobb • Jim Creighton • Yu Darvish • Smash Diggins • Dom DiMaggio • Joe DiMaggio • Danny Dings • Willy Dipkin • Dick Drago‎ • Rollie Fingers • Carlton Fisk • Whitey Ford • Ray Fosse • Terry Francona • Eddie Gaedel • Oscar Gamble‎ • Lou Gehrig • Kirk Gibson • Zack Greinke • Ken Griffey, Jr. • Tommy Henrich • Pinky Higgins • Harry Hooper • Steve Howe • Carl Hubbell • Reggie Jackson • Shoeless Joe Jackson • Derek Jeter • Fake Cough Johnson • Randy Johnson • Chipper Jones • Wally Joyner • Sandy Koufax • Joe LaBoot • John Lackey • Napoleon Lajoie • Cliff Lee • Connie Mack • Mickey Mantle • Don Mattingly • Bill McCloskey • Mark McGwire • Kevin Millar • Buck Mitchell • Tomokazu Ohka • David Ortiz • Mel Ott • Mike Piazza • Alex Rodriguez • Pete Rose • Babe Ruth • Babe Ruth IV • Deion Sanders • Ron Santo • Steve Sax • Mike Scioscia • Ozzie Smith • Warren Spahn • Bart Simpson • Darryl Strawberry • Gabby Street • Ron Swoboda‎ • Gene Tenace • Frank Thomas • Tito • Tommy • Joe Torre • Pie Traynor • Bob Uecker • Fernando Valenzuela • Omar Vizquel • Honus Wagner • Fishbone Walker • Aeropos Walkov • Chuck Wildler • Ted Williams • Tork Williams • Esteban Yan • Carl Yastrzemski Basketball players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • Charles Barkley • Larry Bird • Kobe Bryant • Canadian basketball player • Calbert Cheaney • Stephen Curry • Patrick Ewing • Blake Griffin • LeBron James • Magic Johnson • Michael Jordan • Lisa Leslie • Yao Ming • Muk Mu • Shaquille O'Neal • Lamar Odom • Fung Pang-Li • Robert Parish • Scottie Pippen • David Robinson • Dennis Rodman • Tree Rollins • Bill Russell • Bill Walton • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Boxers Muhammad Ali • Rocky Balboa • Boxcar Bob • Gerry Cooney • James J. Corbett • Tony Danza • Oscar De La Hoya • George Foreman • Joe Frazier • Boxcar Fred • Marvelous Marvin Hagler • Larry Holmes • Ed "Too Tall" Jones • Facepound Jones • Sonny Liston • Homer Simpson • Jim Simpson • Silas Simpson • Leon Spinks • Lucius Sweet • Drederick Tatum • Mike Tyson • Watson Figure skaters Dorothy Hamill • Tonya Harding • Nancy Kerrigan • Michelle Kwan • Elvis Stojko • Kristi Yamaguchi Football players Troy Aikman • Bonkowski • Terry Bradshaw • Tom Brady • Jim Brown • Mark Brunell • Terry Crews • Lakwando Demarius • Case Diggs • Mike Ditka • John Elway • Brett Favre • Alonzo Flowers • Doug Flutie • The Galloping Gazelle • Rosey Grier • Rob Gronkowski • Handsome quarterback • Woody Hayes • Ed "Too Tall" Jones • Sonny Jurgensen • Wayne Kychezski • Tom Landry • Matt Leinart • Anton Lubchenko • Andrew Luck • John Madden • Eli Manning • Peyton Manning • Dan Marino • Grayson Mathers • Trevor McBride • Joe Montana • Bronco Nagurski • Joe Namath • Chad Ochocinco • Dan Orlovsky • Deion Overstreet • Jim Plunkett • Jack Reynolds • Knute Rockne • Rudy • Deion Sanders • Warren Sapp • Gale Sayers • O.J. Simpson • Mike Singletary • Bubba Smith • Ken Stabler • Michael Strahan • Bryan Bartlett Starr • Pat Summerall • Stan Taylor • Joe Theismann • Y. A. Tittle • Johnny Unitas • Herschel Walker • Ricky Watters • Jim Zorn Golfers Lee Carvallo • Ben Hogan • Tom Kite • Justin Leonard • Jack Nicklaus • Greg Norman • Arnold Palmer • Chi-Chi Rodríguez • Leslie Swisher • Bubba Watson • Tiger Woods • Babe Didrikson Zaharias Hockey players Babando • Tom Barrasso • Delacroix • Wayne Gretzky • Stu Grimson • Gordie Howe • Kozlov • Pete Mavroudis • Bobby Orr • Dave Schultz • Tiger Williams Racing drivers Ronnie Beck • Jeff Gordon • Paolo Paoletti • Danica Patrick • Johannes von Schwarzvalder III Soccer/Association football players Ariaga • Ariaga II • Aruglia • Bariaga • David Beckham • Jesminder Bhamra • El Divo • Pelé • Pizzoza • Megan Rapinoe • Ronaldo • Cristiano Ronaldo Tennis players Andre Agassi • Boris Becker • Björn Borg • Jimmy Connors • Billie Jean King • Rod Laver • Ivan Lendl • John McEnroe • Andy Murray • Martina Navratilova • Pete Sampras • Monica Seles • Serena Williams • Venus Williams Wrestlers The $10,000 Man • Honest Abe • "Stone Cold" Steve Austin • Beautiful Bart • Quick Count Basie • The Beefy Bishop • El Bombastico • Dr. Bonebreak • John Cena • Comrade Crush • Deondre the Giant • The English Pound • Meester Espock and Capitan Kirko • Captain Flag • Glamorous Godfrey • Hagen the Horrible • Half-Mast • Bret Hart • Dr. Hillbilly • The Iron Yuppie • Olaf Johannsen • Laddie Liberty • Baby Face Palooka • Rasputin the Friendly Russian • The Rock • Rumbleina • Uncle Slam • The Tiny Titan • Jesse Ventura • Werner von Brawn • The Wild Irishman Other athletes Bernie Ancheta • Lance Armstrong • Bob Beamon • Barbara Belfry • Smokey Blandings • Usain Bolt • Nadia Comăneci • Geena Davis • Denny • Edwin Gourdin • Griffith • Gyro • Scott Hamilton • Tony Hawk • Kim Hwan • Carl Lewis • Chuck Liddell • Carlos Lopes • Greg Louganis • Mav • Leroy "Shakey" McGee • Maurice Minor • Edwin Moses • Mullaly • Larry Newell • Paavo Nurmi • Jesse Owens • Warburton Parker • Michael Phelps • Mary Lou Retton • Sakatumi • Susie Santos • Abraham Simpson • Marge Simpson • Agnes Skinner • Seymour Skinner • Wesley Snipes • Mark Spitz • Shaun White • Cameron Winklevoss • Tyler Winklevoss

Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team members
Wade Boggs • José Canseco • Carl Carlson • Charlie • Roger Clemens • Ken Griffey, Jr. • Lenny Leonard • Don Mattingly • Steve Sax • Mike Scioscia • Homer Simpson • Ozzie Smith • Darryl Strawberry

Springfield Nuclear Power Plant

Management Charles Montgomery Burns • Canary M. Burns • Executive 1 • Executive 2 • Executive 3 • Executive vice president dog • Al Simmons • Waylon Smithers, Jr. Employees Benjamin • Bernie • Bryan • Carl Carlson • Charlie • Lou Collier • Joey Crusher • Dotty • Eugene Fisk • Female Power Plant employee • Pops Freshenmeyer • Mr. Gammill • Ghanaian man • Great father • Gretchen • Guy with big hand • Hank • Homer's supervisor • Jacqueline • Janitor • Tibor Jankovsky • Jerry • Joe • Gummy Joe • Kathy • Lang-Soo • Late shift worker • Lenny Leonard • Linda • Low Blow • Barry Mackleberry • Dr. Olberman • Don Phoneyman • Seymour Skinner • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (Homer's Odyssey) • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (Life on the Fast Lane) • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (Some Enchanted Evening) • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (Simpson and Delilah) • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (Blazed and Confused) • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee (The Princess Guide) • Power plant guard supervisor • R.O.S.A • Angry Ricky • Security guard • Homer Simpson • Smitty • Stewart • Manny Tar • Weinstein • Zutroy Former Employees A9000 Robots • Wade Boggs • Don Bookner • Larry Burns • José Canseco • Gary Chalmers • Roger Clemens • Chip Davis • Roz Davis • Roger Ducette • Ms. Finch • Ned Flanders • Ken Griffey, Jr. • Frank Grimes • Karl • Fred Kranepool • Larry • Jack Marley • Robert Marlowe • Don Mattingly • Elon Musk • Queenie • Steve Sax • Mike Scioscia • Mindy Simmons • Gomer Simpkins • Marge Simpson • Wayne Slater • Ozzie Smith • Waylon Smithers, Sr. • Darryl Strawberry • Ted • Mr. Tickles • Mike Wegman Miscellaneous Blinky • Employee Credit Union • Executives Building • Family Night • Smilin' Joe Fission • Inanimate carbon rod • Nuclear Lake • Radioactive waste • Softball team

The Simpsons characters

The Simpsons and relatives Jacqueline Bouvier • Patty Bouvier • Selma Bouvier • Abraham Simpson • Bart Simpson (Bartman • El Barto) • Homer Simpson • Lisa Simpson • Maggie Simpson • Marge Simpson • Mona Simpson Jub-Jub • Plopper • Santa's Little Helper • Snowball II Around Springfield Kumiko Albertson • Ms. Albright • Jasper Beardley • Benjamin • Blue-haired lawyer • Shauna Chalmers • Comic Book Guy • Crazy Cat Lady • Larry Dalrymple • Doug • Eddie • Maude Flanders • Ned Flanders • Julio Franco • Jonathan Frink • Gary • Alice Glick • Barney Gumble • Gil Gunderson • Constance Harm • Bernice Hibbert • Julius Hibbert • Julius Hibbert's daughter • Julius Hibbert's oldest son • Lionel Hutz • Jacques • "Just stamp the ticket" man • Princess Kashmir • Hyman Krustofsky • Akira Kurosawa • Cookie Kwan • Grady Little • Lou • Helen Lovejoy • Jessica Lovejoy • Timothy Lovejoy, Jr. • Barry Mackleberry • Jerri Mackleberry • Jack Marley • Horatio McCallister • Milo • Hans Moleman • Marvin Monroe • Eddie Muntz • Mrs. Muntz • Bleeding Gums Murphy • Lindsey Naegle • Nahasapeemapetilon octuplets (Anoop • Gheet • Nabendu • Poonam • Pria • Sandeep • Sashi • Uma) • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon • Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon • Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon • Old Jewish man • Ruth Powers • Gareth Prince • Gloria Prince • Joe Quimby (Mayor Quimby's body guards) • Martha Quimby • Raphael • Luigi Risotto • Nick Riviera • Sam • Gerald Samson • Agnes Skinner • Roy Snyder • Spuckler children (Dubya • Whitney) • Brandine Spuckler • Cletus Spuckler • Squeaky-Voiced Teen • Strawberry • Disco Stu • Moe Szyslak • Kirk Van Houten • Luann Van Houten • Clancy Wiggum • Sarah Wiggum • Yes Guy • Artie Ziff Celebrities Bill and Marty • Booberella • Kent Brockman • Bumblebee Man • Scott Christian • Duffman • Matt Groening • Krusty the Clown • Lurleen Lumpkin • Troy McClure • Sideshow Mel • Roger Meyers, Jr. • Arnie Pye • Pyro • Dave Shutton • Jebediah Springfield • Miss Springfield • Drederick Tatum • Mr. Teeny • Rainier Wolfcastle (McBain) Springfield Elementary School faculty and students Chuck Berger • Black weasel • Wendell Borton • Gary Chalmers • Lewis Clark • Database • Lunchlady Dora • E-mail • Rod Flanders • Todd Flanders • Ham • JJ Hibbert • Elizabeth Hoover • Sophie Jensen • Jimbo Jones • Edna Krabappel • Coach Krupt • Dewey Largo • Sherri Mackleberry • Terri Mackleberry • Otto Mann • Audrey McConnell • Nelson Muntz • Nell Nicholson • Brunella Pommelhorst • Janey Powell • Martin Prince • J. Loren Pryor • Report Card • Richard • Dolph Shapiro • Becky Shorter • Nina Skalka • Seymour Skinner • Cosine Tangent • Allison Taylor • Milhouse Van Houten • Wanda • Ralph Wiggum • Groundskeeper Willie • Hubert Wong • Yellow weasel • Jaffee Ziswhisky • Üter Zörker • Kearney Zzyzwicz Blond-haired boy with glasses • Brown-haired boy • Buck-toothed boy • Buck-toothed girl • Girl with glasses • Lewis look-alike • Long haired girl Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Blinky • Charles Montgomery Burns (The Hounds) • Carl Carlson • Charlie • Lenny Leonard • Waylon Smithers, Jr. • Smitty Villains Sideshow Bob • Frankie the Squealer • Herman Hermann • Snake Jailbird • Kang Johnson • Kodos Johnson • Legs • Louie • The Rich Texan • Hank Scorpio • Johnny Tightlips • Fat Tony Other characters Capital City Goofball • Jesus Christ • Santa Claus • Devil • Fallout Boy • Itchy • God • Leprechaun • Richard Nixon • Poochie • Radioactive Man • Scratchy Families The Simpsons • The Bouviers • The Carlsons • The Flanderses • The Hibberts • The Krustofskys • The Lovejoys • The Spucklers • The Van Houtens • The Wiggums • The Muntzes Miscellaneous Doppelgängers • Fictional characters • LGBT characters • Animals • Deceased characters • Crossover characters • One-time characters • Recurring characters • Non-canon characters

Ned's List of Laudable Lefties

50 Cent • Douglas Adams • Buzz Aldrin • Tim Allen • Fred Astaire • Lord Baden-Powell • F. Lee Bailey • Rocky Balboa • James Baldwin • Tom Barrasso • Drew Barrymore • Jason Bateman • Larry Bird • Robert Blake • Barry Bonds • Matthew Broderick • Pierce Brosnan • Lenny Bruce • Mark Brunell • Carol Burnett • George Burns • George H. W. Bush • Brett Butler • David Byrne • Julius Caesar • Milton Caniff • Jim Carrey • Fidel Castro • Lewis Carroll • Charlie Chaplin • Marcia Clark • Bill Clinton • Charlemagne • Prince Charles • Calbert Cheaney • Winston Churchill • Kurt Cobain • Ty Cobb • Jimmy Connors • Hans Conried • James J. Corbett • James Cromwell • Tom Cruise • Robert Crumb • Dick Dale • Leonardo da Vinci • Olivia de Havilland • Robert De Niro • Albert DeSalvo • Albrecht Dürer‎ • Oscar De La Hoya • John Dillinger • Matt Dillon • David Duchovny • Bob Dylan • Ehud • Eminem • Albert Einstein • M. C. Escher • The Everly Brothers • W. C. Fields • Bobby Fischer • Benjamin Franklin • Peter Fonda • Steve Forbes • Henry Ford • Whitey Ford • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • Greta Garbo • Judy Garland • Bill Gates • Uri Geller • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Whoopi Goldberg • Al Gore • Cary Grant • Matt Groening • Ken Griffey, Jr. • Jake Gyllenhaal • Dorothy Hamill • Isaac Hayes • Joey Heatherton • Tippi Hedren • Jimi Hendrix • Jim Henson • Ben Hogan • Hans Holbein • Herbert Hoover • J. Edgar Hoover • Steve Howe • Carl Hubbell • Rock Hudson • Hugh Jackman • Reggie Jackson • Shoeless Joe Jackson • Peter Jennings • Angelina Jolie • Wally Joyner • Danny Kaye • Diane Keaton • Helen Keller • Caroline Kennedy • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Kermit the Frog • Nicole Kidman • Paul Klee • Ted Koppel • Ripsa Koskinen-Papunen • Sandy Koufax • Lisa Kudrow • Rod Laver • Peter Lawford • Cloris Leachman • Spike Lee • Ivan Lendl • Jay Leno • David Letterman • Greg Louganis • Shirley MacLaine • Ricky Martin • Harpo Marx • Bill Mauldin • Marcel Marceau • Paul McCartney • John McEnroe • Marshall McLuhan • Robert McNamara • Kristy McNichol • Steve McQueen • Anne Meara • George Michael • Michelangelo • Marilyn Monroe • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Martina Navratilova • Friedrich Nietzsche • Oliver North • Kim Novak • Ryan O'Neal • Pat Oliphant • Bobby Orr • Mel Ott • Sarah Jessica Parker • Trey Parker • Arnold Palmer • George S. Patton • Linus Pauling • Pelé • Anthony Perkins • Ross Perot • Joe Perry • Luke Perry • Pablo Picasso • Robert Plant • Cole Porter • Colin Powell • Pretty much any ballplayer named "Lefty" • Richard Pryor • Edward R. Murrow • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Raphael • Maurice Ravel • Ronald Reagan • Robert Redford • Keanu Reeves • Julia Roberts • Pat Robertson • David Robinson • Bill Russell • Babe Ruth • Eva Marie Saint • Deion Sanders • Gayle Sayers • Albert Schweitzer • Seal • H. Norman Schwarzkopf • Jerry Seinfeld • Monica Seles • Richard Simmons • Paul Simon • Warren Spahn • Mark Spitz • Ken Stabler • Ringo Starr • Ben Stiller • Sting • Darryl Strawberry • Emma Thompson • Rip Torn • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • Leo Tolstoy • Harry S. Truman • Peter Ustinov • Fernando Valenzuela • Rudy Vallée • Dick Van Dyke • Queen Victoria • Otto von Bismarck • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • Bill Walton • H. G. Wells • Eudora Welty • Prince William • Ted Williams • Bruce Willis • William Windom • Joanne Woodward • Jim Zorn