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...addition to Rivera, the Diamondbacks also faced the obstacle of competing against the Yankee legacy. Arizona had to reckon with the ghosts of Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle and DiMaggio...
RETIRING. CAL RIPKEN, 40, Baltimore Orioles infielder who chased down Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record of 2,130 consecutive games played, setting a new record of 2,632 before voluntarily ending his streak on Sept. 20, 1998; in Baltimore, Md. After 20 years of modest and steady service, Ripken, now batting .209, will bow out at the end of the season...
Sunday, Sept. 30 ????? ??? ? He played in 2,632 straight games, more than three full seasons longer than Lou Gehrig's seemingly unbreakable record of 2,130 set 59 years earlier. Everett Scott, who ranks third with 1,307 consecutive games played from 1916-25, has long since been dusted...
...winner of the Red Rolfe Division will take on the Lou Gehrig Division champions-likely Princeton-in a three-game series next weekend. The winner of that series will earn an automatic berth into an NCAA regional bracket...
...most unusual communication was with the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time (almost 9 million copies sold), whose battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) did not keep him from visiting Caltech in March. Charles e-mailed Hawking's assistant, and after making two small editing changes requested by Hawking, received a FedEx package from California the next day. Inside was a piece of paper bearing Hawking's freshly made right thumbprint...