Baseball record-breaker Cal Ripken has missed his first game for more than 16 years.
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Running a public company for the past 22 years has left me feeling like Cal Ripken, Jr.
Weaver also played a key role in nurturing two other future Hall of Famers, Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken.
Attendance dropped below 3 million in 2002, the year the legendary Cal Ripken retired, and below 2 million by 2008.
Cal Ripken Jr. achieved stardom as a shortstop with the Baltimore Orioles and is a member of baseball's Hall of Fame.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the team was packed with future Hall of Famers (Cal Ripken, Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, Robbie Alomar).
Aberdeen police said that they have no knowledge of a ransom being demanded or paid, and that Cal Ripken apparently wasn't contacted.
In Cal Ripken-fashion he has missed just 15 of 2, 600 shows--and those only because he suffered an airplane crash and an aneurysm.
At age 26 he wrote to me and described his final at-bat playing AA ball (with Cal Ripken) at the Charlotte Orioles.
Feelings of anger and betrayal as a result of the 1994 strike were immediately replaced with admiration and jubilation due to Cal Ripken, Jr.
The Babe Ruth League's Cal Ripken division allows composite youth bats.
To this day, Tom Seaver still holds the record for highest percentage of the vote at 98.84% while Cal Ripken, Jr. has received the most votes at 537.
The official said the suspect made no mention of Cal Ripken, an indication that he might not have known she is the mother of a famous former baseball player.
The woman who has been called the "Cal Ripken of Broadway" is a petite, stunning woman with a lightning-quick mind who started as an actress and turned into an entrepreneur.
Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.
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In the case of Cal Ripken, Jr.
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For instance, besides Derek Jeter, there are only three men who have played a majority of their careers as shortstops to have accumulated more than 3, 000 hits: Honus Wagner (3, 420), Cal Ripken, Jr. (3, 184) and Robin Yount (3, 142).
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For instance, while some might believe that it must have felt like an eternity for Jeter to accumulate his final six hits for 3, 000, Cal Ripken, Jr. had to wait an entire offseason in order to collect the final hits for 3, 000.
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But in any case, Cal Ripken, of course, won two MVP awards, played in 2, 632 consecutive games and really stood for a lot of the virtue in baseball, and a lot of the good things that baseball represents to a lot of people.
Not only should Jeter easily eclipse the 90% threshold, but he could join the likes of Tom Seaver (98.83%), Nolan Ryan (98.79%), Cal Ripken, Jr. (98.53%), Ty Cobb (98.23%), and George Brett (98.19%) as the only players to exceed 98% on a Hall of Fame ballot.
Besides a rookie campaign that began in 1986 where Ozzie Smith and Cal Ripken, Jr. were the obvious defensive and offensive gold standards for major league shortstops, ball players such as Tony Fernandez of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League was garnering accolades and praise as a premiere defensive shortstop as well.
Baseball greats, Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn, got the call to Cooperstown today, but much of the interest in this year's ballot for the baseball Hall of Fame centers on a player who did not get elected: Mark MaGwire, the man who broke Roger Maris' record and one of the top homerun hitters of all time.
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