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...perspective." Francis Pugh, parish council vice chair and a counsel in the state attorney general's office, offers with a laugh his view of salvation and eternal life: "I have this image that when we go to heaven we'll be greeted with a roar of applause like Cal Ripken Jr. was, and we'll do a lap around the bases, and He'll know my name...
There were streaks to follow, records to break, no-hitters to pitch, standings to watch and stories to write. There was Cal Ripken, Ramon Martinez, Albert Belle, the Red Sox atop the AL East and the Cleveland Indians clinching their first division title in 41 years...
...them were, and still are, valid questions. But they tend to obscure the excitement and joy that fans of the sport shared as two of its greats, Gehrig and Ripken, were linked in baseball immortality...
When the record fell, Ripken didn't do much--he came out of the dugout a couple of times and doffed his cap, but that was all it seemed he wanted...
When the game ended, and the speeches were made, Ripken spoke not of himself, but about "what was good and right about the great American game...