Emily: My dad grew up walking distance from Yankee Stadium. I think he had a real itch to get back into baseball when he moved out to Seattle. He moved there a year or two before the Mariners showed up. Basically as soon as I was old enough to sit through a game, we started going. It was a great time to be a little kid excited about baseball because Ken Griffey Jr had just arrived in Seattle. He was this teenage phenom. He went straight from high school. I don't know how many years I had the Sports Illustrated for Kids cover with Ken Griffey Jr blowing this great, big bubble gum bubble. He was just the cat's meow for me. That, plus it was a chance during our day and our week that I got to spend time with my dad alone, was really nice.