Griffey coaches children in Japan

Griffey coaches children in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Former major leaguer Ken Griffey Jr. demonstrates batting during a baseball clinic in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 15, 2012. Griffey held the event with Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge for children including ones from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, an area greatly affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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