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...Because when Cal Ripken, Jr. announced Tuesday he would be retiring from baseball at the end of this season he not only set in motion an unofficial farewell tour, lit up switchboards at Major League Baseball ticket offices across the U.S., and placed one very large burden his manager, Mike Hargrove - he also ended an era that began when Ronald Reagan was a rookie president and signaled the passing of a time when ballplayers were synonymous with only one city...
...answer has often been no - the two-time Most Valuable Player of the American League is now performing on a more ordinary level, putting up numbers (an unthreatening batting average of just .209, only 4 home runs) that would get many players sent down to the minor leagues - and Ripken has actually sat out a few games. ?Now, Hargrove must take into account the fact that tens of thousands of fans will feel cheated every night Ripken sits...
...question of whether to play Ripken had been a no-brainer for Oriole managers in the past two decades...
...Plays host at a dinner at the White House for Derek Jeter, Tom Glavine, Cal Ripken, Yankees manager Joe Torre and others; for dessert he serves cookies shaped like hot dogs and miniature containers of french fries...
...left behind more than 250 signed baseballs he'd collected since he was a kid. But he did pack his love of the game. And last Wednesday, the new president hosted a small group of some of America's great players, managers and their wives. Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken and Braves pitcher Tom Glavine dined on veal chop and salad in the old family dining room along with Yankees manager Joe Torre, Cubs skipper Don Baylor and Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's. It's the kind of group that can be put together when...