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Title

• Baseball's iron man : Cal Ripkin Jr., a tribute / Jeff Seidel.

Author

Seidel, Jeff

Publication

Champaign, IL : Sports Pub., c2007.

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Details

Description

xvi, 175 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

• Baseball's Iron Man is not a biography. That story's been told many times. This book looks at how Ripken did what he did. It talks about how much he enjoyed the game, how he viewed the Streak as nothing more than going to the ballpark and doing the job he was supposed to do, and how he came to earn respect on and off the ballfield.
• Baseball's Iron Man shows how much the game of baseball meant to Ripken as a player and still means to him presently. He's become the owner of a very successful minor-league team, the Aberdeen IronBirds. He's also teaching the kids the right way to play the game and making sure they have fun doing it - a task that's not considered work, because he's carrying on his late father's dream to teach a game he loved.
• Baseball's Iron Man tells what the former Oriole has meant to Baltimore, to his team, and still stands for after his retirement. Ripken's work ethic was legendary during his career, and former players share how Cal wanted nothing less that the best from himself - and everyone on the field - when playing.
• In the end, Baseball's iron Man is about a man who grew up loving baseball and has kept his father's dream alive by instilling that same passion in others. It's about who Ripken was and is and what the Hall of Famer has done and will continue to do for the game of baseball. (Publisher).
• Just about everyone who has followed Baltimore baseball in the last 25 years knows Cal Ripken, Jr. If you're an Orioles fan, you saw him play at some point during his incredible Streak of 2,632 consecutive games - a record that will never be broken. If you're from Hartford County, you probably know someone who saw him play at Aberdeen High School in the late '70s. And if you're from the area now, you've probably been to his new baseball palace, Ripken Stadium.
• The bottom line is that the name Cal Ripken, Jr. is synonymous with baseball in the Baltimore area. Now that he's entering into the Hall of Fame, many people have many stories that show what a popular person he was during his playing career and how much he still means to the sport and to the area, even though he no longer puts on the uniform.

Subject

• Baseball players > United States > Biography
• Ripken, Cal, Jr., 1960-

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Donald R. Morrison -- Introduction -- He was just Calvin -- Coming to the Majors -- MVP, year two -- The difficult years -- The Strike and the Streak -- Breaking the unbreakable record -- Late-game problems -- The Streak ends quietly -- Ripken's final season -- A big hit -- Changing the image of shortstop -- Setting the tone -- Character -- Moments to remember -- Looking back on the record -- The new game -- Post-playing career : a closer look -- What the future holds -- Entering the hall -- In the end -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781596701724 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1596701722 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006102970

OCLC

77573857

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library