Article: OUT IN LEFT FIELD GRIFFEY OWNS CENTER, BUHNER RULES RIGHT, BUT THAT OTHER SPOT IS THE M'S BLACK HOLE.(Special Section)

The job description reads as follows: long hours on your feet, limited benefits, career advancement unlikely, temps welcome.

Airport metal-detector guard?

Convenience store clerk?

Night janitor?

No. It is Left Field, Seattle Mariners - apply at your own risk.

Forty-six people have played at least one inning there since 1989, when Ken Griffey Jr. took up permanent residence in center field and Jay Buhner started making inroads in right. Beating a path through left has been a cast of characters resembling a traveling freakshow.

Pitchers, catchers, infielders. Fathers, cousins, kids. Leftovers, lefties, leftists.

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