Word: ripkens
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...been a month now since the great Iron Man streak of Lou Gehrig was broken by shortstop Cal Ripken...
...there was one individual over the past three months who was more talked about than O.J., it was probably Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., who on September 5 broke what many thought the most untouchable record in professional sports: the streak of 2,130 consecutive games owned by former Yankee Lou Gehrig...
...martian who had just arrived on earth, it would appear the free world was under the jurisdiction of Cal Ripken...
...course a player can't make it through 2,131 consecutive games without being supremely talented and conditioned, as Cal was (and is). But there can be no question that, in the end, Ripken owes his place in baseball history primarilly to Lady Luck...
...inevitably approached, Ripken began to transcend his role as an athlete to that territory so dreaded by Charles Barkely: the role model...