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AP: Griffey pays off Fogg in pennies
Published 5/15/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
AP: Griffey pays off Fogg in pennies Ken Griffey Jr. owed Cincinnati Reds teammate Josh Fogg $1,500, and paying by check just wouldn’t do. So when Fogg arrived in the Reds clubhouse Wednesday, he found his locker filled with 150,000 pennies—60 boxes, each weighing 16 pounds and containing $25 worth of pennies. “Basically, it’s like having 60 bowling balls in your locker, only with no holes to pick them up with,” Griffey said. Neither player would say why Griffey owed Fogg the money. Griffey had threatened to pay it off in pennies, but Fogg didn’t believe him. “I’m going to ...

Baseball Today: Friday, May 16
Published 5/16/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) . . . Griffey paid off a debt to teammate Josh Fogg with 150,000 pennies (AP via yahoo.com) . . . Carlos Zambrano ...