VIDEO WEEK: Michael Jordan asks Ken Griffey Jr. for an autograph

It’s VIDEO WEEK on the Baseball Continuum!

In 1994, then-baseball player Michael Jordan visited the All-Star Game. It provided us with two indelible images:

1) Confirmation that Cal Ripken Jr. was nearly as tall as Michael Jordan (going by listed heights, he was only two inches shorter than MJ).

2) Confirmation that Ken Griffey Jr. was such a big star that even the most famous athlete in the world would go out of his way to get his autograph.

Famous for Something Else: Michael Jordan

If you don’t know who Michael Jordan is, you have either been in a coma for the last thirty years or you have come from another planet (although even people from other planets knew who Jordan was in his prime). It’s his 50th birthday today. Go below the jump for stuff on him:

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