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IAST Award--This year is the first time Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken has won the coveted It's About Stinking Time Award for finally pulling the plug on his streak at 2,632 games. His steadily declining level of play recently (.271 with 14 homers and 61 RBIs) means he is only an average third baseman...
PHILADELHIA, Pa.--One week ago Cal Ripken, Jr. ended his streak on his own terms. On Saturday the Penn women's soccer team had two of its streaks stopped, but the Quakers had little choice in the matter. HARVARD 2 PENN...
ENDED. Baltimore Orioles third baseman CAL RIPKEN JR.'s hallowed streak of consecutive games played; at 16 years and 2,632 games, a major league record; in Baltimore, Md. Ripken surpassed Lou Gehrig's mark of 2,130 consecutive games, which had stood for 56 years...
...first man to save baseball in the last few years. Sometime around 1995, the phrase "good for the game" entered the vocabulary of sports commentators, and has lingered ever since to honor those admirable players who have taken it upon themselves to save the sport. Cal Ripken Jr. saved the game in 1995, when he passed Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record at 2,130. The next year, the New York Yankees again saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans to claim the World Series...
...first loyalty is to the team. Ryan Minor, who played in Ripken's place Sunday night, is one of the top prospects in the league, not to mention in the Orioles organization. He may not play every day. But maybe, just maybe, he could get a clutch hit here and there, and maybe, just maybe, the O's could return to the World Series, a place they haven't been since Cal's streak passed 300. --JAL D. MEHTA