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Unless something unforeseen or unthinkable happens, Cal Ripken, the 35-year-old shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles, will play in his 2,131st straight game on Sept. 6, against the California Angels in Oriole Park at Camden Yards. That will break the record set by Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the New York Yankees from 1925 until 1939. The "Streak," as it has come to be called, officially began on May 30, 1982, when Orioles manager Earl Weaver started Ripken at third base, which was then his position, against the Toronto Blue Jays. The previous day, Weaver had rested...
...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...
...nobody came close to the performance of junior shortstop Amy Reinhard. Also a starter on the women's basketball team, Reinhard hit .394 overall, belted three homers and broke the Harvard single-season records for hits and stolen bases (56 and 25, respectively) and career...
...Crimson had a chance for more with only one out, but neither junior catcher Dennis Doble nor sophomore shortstop Mike Hochanadel could produce the clutch...
With one out and runners on first and second, senior reliever Lee Mancini was greeted with a double by UMass shortstop Mark Pileski, knocking in both inherited runners...