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...Cal Ripken Jr.'s Final Stadium Stops...
...Because when Cal Ripken, Jr. announced Tuesday he would be retiring from baseball at the end of this season he not only set in motion an unofficial farewell tour, lit up switchboards at Major League Baseball ticket offices across the U.S., and placed one very large burden his manager, Mike Hargrove - he also ended an era that began when Ronald Reagan was a rookie president and signaled the passing of a time when ballplayers were synonymous with only one city...
...each final stop in American League cities (see chart) Ripken will receive adulation reserved for an athlete who was the antithesis of the ills fans identify with modern sports - free agency that tests players' loyalties and the erosion of commitment caused by inflated salaries. (Buy tickets to those games. Cal will play...
...though it's been a few years since he was the best player in baseball, it's worth remembering when Cal Ripken was. Ripken was named Rookie of the Year in 1982 and led the O's to their last World Series title in 1983, his first of two MVP seasons (1991 the other). He's made 18 straight appearances in the All-Star Game, smashed his 400th home run in September 1999 and collected his 3,000th hit in April 2000. Pundits have questioned for some time whether Ripken should have already hung up the spikes, but really...
...Liebman puts it, "Fortified junk food is still junk food." Most women can get the nutrients they need just as well, and much more cheaply, from a daily multivitamin as from a 170-cal. nutrition bar that costs...