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Griffey timeline from 1998

I posted this in the Griffey thread, but I thought it was interesting enough to put it in a diary by itself:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/1998/target61/timeline/griffey/index.html

January 1988:  What price stardom? Racial slurs hurled at him by Bellingham teenagers and disagreements with his father prompt 18-year old Griffey to swallow over 200 aspirin in a suicide attempt. His stomach is pumped and he is placed in intensive care. "It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there," Griffey told The Seattle Times when he revealed the story in 1992. "I got depressed. I got angry. I didn't want to live."

I think this really puts his career in perspective as well as what his public image has had to endure over the years.