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...hard to imagine anyone better suited than senior writer Steve Wulf to profile Cal Ripken Jr. on the eve of the Orioles star's coronation as baseball's all-time king of endurance. Like his subject, Wulf has more than a passing familiarity with stamina. Wulf produced more than 500 stories during his 17 years at our sister publication SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. And though he has written on basketball, football, sailing and golf since coming to TIME last January (not to mention children's TV and the Susan Smith murder case), the game he has always been most passionate about...
...author, along with LIFE managing editor Daniel Okrent, of Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press; 1989). In that compendium, now considered a classic, the authors called Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games during the 1920s and 1930s "unapproachable." Wulf does deserve credit for spotting Ripken's ability, if not his potential as an endurance champ, back in 1982, when the rookie was still in spring training. "He'll make people notice him," Wulf wrote at the time, quoting an Orioles coach...
Barring an unforeseen disaster, legendary Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken tonight will tie a record many thought untouchable -- Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games in major league baseball. Wednesday, he'll break it. TIME sportwriter Steve Wulf says Ripken's achievement can be explained in a word: attitude. "He just wants to be in the lineup every day," Wulf says. "Unlike most ballplayers today, Ripken has been conditioned to play baseball every single day. Most players grow up having their managers give them a day off every now and then. Not Cal." Gehrig's record has stood since...
...that show, or the one in which Cal Ripken trots out to shortstop for the Orioles, game after game after game? At the 66th All-Star Game last week, Ripken, who was just 54 games shy of Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played (2,130), spent close to an hour signing autographs for the fans, working his way from dugout to dugout in the 100¡ heat while most of his peers were relaxing in the air-conditioned comfort of their clubhouses...
Stop talking about the strike. Start talking about the Streak (Cal Ripken's Streak, that is). Market the players; stop fighting them...