On May 31st, 2010, the Seattle Mariners were at home playing the Minnesota Twins in the first of a four-game regular season series.

The season was almost a third complete by that point, and so far, the twins are pretty good, the Mariners were pretty bad, not much was at stake.

That's to short right field. Cadilliers got a cannon, and they won't even try.

Two down.

The twins won that game five to four, and everyone headed home.

Business as usual.

But by the time game two rolled around the next day, it wasn't business as usual.

Ken Griffey Jr. was missing.

The 10-time Gold Glove winner, 13-time All-Star, League MVP, and future Hall of Famer had vanished overnight.

For brief time, the fans didn't know where he was, his teammates didn't know, his manager

didn't even know.

But his agent Brian did.

I think he called me right when he was getting in the car. Like he just said, you know, hey, I'm in the car. Nothing's going to stop me. I'm going. I'm done. And just needed a head start and give them a few hours. And then they could tell everybody what was going on. Brian gave Jr. That head start. Then he called the president of the Mariners at the time, Chuck Armstrong.

He said, you're going to get a call from Jr. and I think he said, what, half an hour or something

like that. And you're probably not going to like what he's going to say. I said, okay.

Do you remember getting that call? Yep. Yep. I do. And I asked where he was, and he said he was getting gas.

I thought he was going to tell him he was at a gas station driving to the ballpark,

and we were going to have a talk when he got here.

And I didn't know later in the conversation that he was getting gas in Montana.

Not even halfway into his 22nd year as a pro.

Ken Griffey Jr. had gotten into his car that night after the Mariner game.

He drove away from Safeco Field, the stadium nicknamed the house that Griffey built.

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