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...Berkeley" Ripken...
Last month, on the same day he was fired as Baltimore manager, Cal Ripken Sr. pleaded guilty to drunken driving, a familiar Oriole road that Earl Weaver had swerved down before him. A manager is scarcely a manager if his nose has never required batteries. Tommy Lasorda, who for insurance reasons has removed the beer keg from his Dodger Stadium office, tells some funny stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office...
...with guys on the mound like Mike Boddicker and Scott McGregor and guys in the field like Cal Ripken and Eddie Murray, I thought that a little thing like an 0-12 start could be turned around in a few days...
...baseball was settling into the season, the Baltimore Orioles were spinning out of the way, reeling from inside pitches too mean to be believed, looking silly and sad. Starting with a 12-0 opener at home, the Orioles lost the first six games for second-year Manager Cal Ripken, who was abruptly fired. Frank Robinson replaced him, and they lost ten more to shatter an 84-year-old major-league record. Once Baltimore was the proudest team in the game, and the winningest...
Besides a hopeless pitching corps that mocks the great Oriole staffs of the past, Robinson inherits two children of the deposed manager. Billy Ripken, 23, the second baseman, quietly exchanged his uniform number for his dad's. "I don't want to see anyone else wearing it," he grumbled. On the timing of their father's dismissal, Shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., 27, said, "As a player, I don't have an opinion. As a son, I'll keep my opinions to myself." Baltimoreans are especially worried about Cal Jr., the American League's Most Valuable Player of 1983, who went...