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Speaking of baseball, is Cal Ripken’s consecutive game streak really the most memorable Major League moment of all-time? More memorable than Carlton Fisk’s 1975 Game Six home run, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career homer or Kirk Gibson’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” fist pumping blast in the 1988 World Series? It’s a great record, but it’s not really a baseball moment. He just showed...
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .223-cal. bullets used to kill nine people and wound two others...
...game (Don Larsen, 1956), smashing a thrilling homer (Bill Mazeroski, 1960, or Carlton Fisk, 1975), hitting a squibbler that took an amazin' bounce (Mookie Wilson, 1986). But they chose one that took no athletic ability at all: walking onto a baseball field at the beginning of a game. When Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles did that on September 6, 1995, he broke Lou Gehrig's iron-man record of 2,130 consecutive games. Ladies and gentlemen, your all-time Most Memorable Baseball Moment...
...Give Cal a Certificate of Attendance award. Call him the Strom Thurmond of baseball. But don't make him a hero. Save that designation for Gehrig. Or Jackie Robinson, and the great black stars before him whom institutional racism kept from playing in the bigs. Or the famously reckless, play-through-pain Pete Reiser (who was so mangled after hitting the wall at Ebbets Field in 1947 that he was given the last rites, and played on). Or Pete Gray, who lost an arm in childhood yet still played a year in the majors. Or some schmo with average skills...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .223-cal. bullets used to kill nine people and wound two others...