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Another great place for people-watching: Camden Yards, the greatest ballpark on earth. I go on a night when the O’s are playing the Anaheim Angels. Cal Ripken has recently been named All-Star MVP, and when he comes up to bat, we all fall silent, like it’s an audience with the Pope...
...ratings for the All-Star game were up 9% this year, and it's no wonder. CAL RIPKEN JR., America's official icon of staying power, provided enough heart-tugging drama for a Billy Crystal TV movie by crushing a home run in his final bow at an All-Star game. Grown men wept as the room-service fastball, served up by Chan Ho Park, landed beyond the left-field fence. For comic relief, TOMMY LASORDA took a flying baseball bat off his hip while coaching third base, wobbled over and popped right back up like the giant, adorable Weeble...
...That's who the fans want to see on the big mid-season stage (plus Cal Ripken)? Fine. It'll be the high point of the season for most of these guys - the combined fan-elected starting lineups of the AL and NL have all of two World Series rings between them. "Star" is an individual term, and these guys, by themselves, are the ones putting up the numbers...
TIME.COM'S PERSON OF WEEK The irreplaceable Cal Ripken Jr., last vestige of an era when ballplayers were synonymous with one city. In our accompanying on-line poll, 62% of users said the Iron Man retired at just "the right time...
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...