Ken Griffey, Jr.
Photo: Sporting News
As a teenager, Griffey was already identified as a future great Major League Baseball star. But the early pressure to perform was extremely intense for someone so young.
“It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there,” Griffey recalled. “I got depressed. I got angry. I didn’t want to live.”
According to an article by John Sickels of SB Nation, in 1988 Griffey “thought about shooting himself, but instead swallowed an entire bottle of aspirin, 277 tablets in all.”
Fortunately, he was found and rushed to the hospital by his girlfriend’s mother in time to pump his stomach and save his life.
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