"Junior" makes it to the Hall

Well this past week has been a whirlwind. We have been working a ton in order to get all of our work done for our I-Core Case and I can proudly say that I think our case is the best work I have been a part of. What this case has brought to light for me has just been how important it is that your team dynamics and cohesion as a group is paramount when facing such a large task as this. We are currently reading through and doing final edits and our compiled document is at 81 pages! There is no way that one person could have done that all by him or her self. In a lot of past groups, I have felt the need to take a lead position and try to force my way into controlling the different aspects of the project, and that really was something that I have tried to avoid as of late. This case just reinforced how important the ability to delegate tasks and relying on your teammates is, and I am lucky that Team 1 for this case has gelled so quickly in such a short period of time.

Outside of the Kelley world, one of my favorite athletes of all time, Ken Griffey Jr., was officially elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown this past weekend. Anybody that has ever been in my basement at home has seen the Reds paraphernalia that hangs on the walls. Whether it be Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, or Johnny Vander Meer, if you are a true Red legend or not hinges on your presence in our basement (I am sure many Reds players are very concerned at this point). In addition to these fantastic players, the newspaper on the day that Junior hit his 600th homerun hangs in our basement. I was only 4 years old when Junior came back home to play for the Reds, and even then my brother and I were obsessed with him. Junior probably never lived up to the astronomical heights that were predicted when he left Seattle, and I have to say it is kind of sad to see him wearing a Mariners cap in the Hall, but when he came to the Reds it was not as if he was joining his Father's Big Red Machine. Junior is and always will be one of my favorite baseball players of all-time, and I can only imagine what his career would have looked like in the case that injuries hadn't taken such a toll- because I firmly believe he would have eclipsed 700 homeruns, and flirted with being the best player that baseball has ever seen. His swing was so smooth, and the way he glided in the outfield made every play look easy, even if it wasn't. With all of that said, I'm still pissed that you robbed that Lou Collins' homerun and beat Billy Haywood's Twins in "Little Big League".

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One last note, I thought the most interesting stat from this past weekend was the fact that Junior was the 1st Number 1 Overall Pick to make it to the Hall, making him the highest player drafted to make the Hall of Fame. Mike Piazza was the polar opposite, a 62nd Round Draft pick in 1988 which makes him the lowest player drafted to make the Hall of Fame. Pretty cool dichotomy this past weekend in Cooperstown.


Duncan Hensley
Indiana University
Kelley School of Business '18