Ask Cal Ripken if he saved baseball, and he laughs. “I think I played a role in bringing baseball back,” he said. But if you had to pinpoint the exact date baseball was saved, the date when it became ...
Jayson Stark was 16 years into what is now a 46-year Hall of Fame baseball-writing career when he walked into Baltimore’s Camden Yards on the night of Sept. 6, 1995, knowing exactly what was about to ...
In 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. tied Lou Gehrig’s record of 2,130 consecutive games played. Ripken broke the record the next day, and went on to play a total of 2,632 consecutive games before voluntarily ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the Orioles’ Cal Ripken became a forever iron-man of Major League Baseball with 2,131 consecutive games played in 1995, Rockies’ commentator Jeff Huson, ...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr. playing his 2,131st consecutive game and setting new records. In an interview with 11 News, Ripken said that Sept. 6, 1995, started pretty ...
September 6 is a date that will always hold a special place in the hearts of Baltimore Orioles fans. This is because on September 6, 1995, the legendary Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st ...
The Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer offers wisdom on being a ‘gamer’—no matter what field you work in. On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. broke one of the most hallowed records in Major League ...
What kind of All-Star snub would it take for you to still gnash your teeth over it more than a decade later? The biggest snub I can recall was in 1995 when a declining Cal Ripken started the All-Star ...