The main by and large pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time Elite player, Baseball Lobby of Notoriety inductee Ken Griffey Jr. is perhaps of the most productive grand slam hitter in baseball history.

Perhaps of the Most Productive Homer Hitter in Baseball History To Lead NTT INDYCAR SERIES Field to Green

Baseball Lobby of Popularity inductee Ken Griffey Jr. has been named privileged Speed Vehicle driver for the 108th Indianapolis 500 introduced by Gainbridge on Sunday, May 26.

Griffey will drive the 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Beam and lead the field of 33 drivers to the beginning of “The Best Display in Hustling.”

“Driving the Speed Vehicle and driving the field to begin the Indy 500 is perhaps of the coolest experience,” Griffey said. “I came to the track a couple of years prior as a photographic artist and anticipate understanding the race according to with a better point of view.”

Known as “Junior” and “The Youngster,” Griffey played 22 years as an outfielder in the Significant Association Baseball (MLB). He enjoyed most of his profession with the Seattle Sailors and Cincinnati Reds, with a short stretch with the Chicago White Sox.

The primary generally speaking pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time Elite player, Griffey is quite possibly of the most productive grand slam hitter in baseball history. His 630 homers rank as the seventh-most in MLB history. Griffey was additionally an uncommon protector and won 10 Gold Glove Grants in focus field. He is tied for the record of most sequential games with a grand slam (eight, with Wear Mattingly and Dale Long).

One of just 31 players in baseball history to have showed up in significant association games in four different schedule many years, Griffey was chosen for the Baseball Lobby of Popularity in 2016. He got 99.32 percent of the vote, breaking pitcher Tom Seaver’s record of 98.84 percent, which had represented 24 years. He additionally was drafted into both the Sailors Corridor of Acclaim and the Reds Lobby of Popularity.

“Each baseball fan knows Ken Griffey Jr.,” IMS President J. Douglas Boles said. “Two legends will meet up as Griffey bounces into the Corvette E-Beam to lead the field at the Hustling Capital of the World.”

Corvette has paced “The Best Display in Hustling” a bigger number of times than any vehicle. The 2024 race denotes the 35th time for Chevrolet to pace tracing all the way back to 1948 and the 21st time generally speaking and beginning around 1978 for America’s number one games vehicle.

The 108th Indianapolis 500 introduced by Gainbridge is booked for Sunday, May 26. Visit IMS.com for tickets and more data on the entire Month of May occasions and exercises at IMS.