LOS ANGELES – The very nature of sports, where even the most elite athlete’s prime is a fleeting thing, makes memorable inter-generational moments few and far between. It was an undeniably thrilling moment when Mike Yastrzemski of the San Francisco Giants hit a home run last week at Fenway Park, where his Hall of Fame grandfather, Carl Yastrzemski, patrolled left field for the Boston Red Sox for 24 years. But that came 36 years after the elder Yastrzemski hung up his cleats. If you narrow the gap to parent and child, you have to go back 29 years to find an event that’s stood the test of time. On Sept. 14, 1990, Ken Griffey Sr.
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