Walking dowreets of his old hometown of Donora iern Pennsylvania, Seattle Mariners star Ken Griffey Jr. was still feeling the exhilaration of his earlier victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. He had hit the winning homerun at Three Rivers stadium, and now on top of that he had the opportunity to visit family members that still lived here, just a short drive south of the steel city. His meanderio a ball park where nine pre-teen boys, age o twelve were holding an informal little league practice. Their red on blaiforms identified the team as the Donora Demons.
Pausing to watch the team practice, Ken looked the boys over. The pitcher was a twelve year old Hispanic boy with bronze skin, brown eyes and a mop of black hair. The catcher was nine year old Danny with red hair and greehat clearly identified his Irish li bat was Danny' s brother, twelve year old Sean had the same green eyes but his hair was a dark brown. The outfield was covered by twelve year old Marcus at ter, his ebony brown skin told Ken they came from the same Afro-Ameri stock. On the right stood Mike and Brian on the left, both eleven year old boys had light brown hair and blue eyes. First base was covered by Jerome, his older brother Marcus usually just called the eleven year old JT. Marc' s you brother, ten year old Theo held down sed base. Blond, Blue-eyed Paul on third was the same age as Theo.
The boys soon discovered they had an audiend Marcus quickly reized his sports idol. In a quick fereh his teammates, Marc identified Ken and discovered that like himself they idolized Junior. However, the boys all agreed that they felt a slight sense of betrayal due to the fact that Ken played for Seattle and had led the Mario victory over their beloved Pirates. It was nine year old Danny who wiggling his fingers in a pantomime of tig, suggested they take their revenge by getting Griffey. The older boys quickly griheir approval and put together a hasty plan.
Ken watched as the boys held a