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Showing posts with label Cal Ripken Jr. Show all posts
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July 1, 2012

Best Sports Moment in Each of the 50 States


Maryland
In 1995, Aberdeen homeboy Cal Ripken Jr. plays his 2,131st consecutive game for the Orioles, breaking the mark set by Yankees icon Lou Gehrig. (39.3%) Runner-up Juan Dixon leads Maryland over Indiana for the 2002 NCAA title. (17.8%)

New Hampshire
Charlestown native Carlton Fisk urges a 12th-inning shot past the “fair” pole to clinch Game 6 of the ’75 World Series for Boston. (27.1%) Runner-up The Granite State’s other favorite son, Paul Levesque (Triple H), wins his record 13th WWE title, in 2009. (14.2%)

Virginia
No. 11 seed George Mason outmuscles top-seeded Connecticut in an 86-84 overtime win in the 2006 Elite Eight. (30.4%) Runner-up In Remember the Titans style, T.C. Williams High School wins 1971 state football title. (21.9%)

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source: espn.com

April 17, 2010

Orioles Ready To Talk If Ripken Wants Job

Cal Ripken Jr. has not offered himself to the Baltimore Orioles as a prospective employee, team owner Peter Angelos said Saturday, adding that if Ripken wants to be part of the organization, he'd be happy to sit down and talk with the Hall of Famer about a job.

Angelos was responding to a FoxSports.com story that he turned down the opportunity to hire Ripken, who spent all 21 of his major league seasons with the Orioles...More?

source: espn.com

April 16, 2010

O's Turned Down Ripken for Job

The Orioles, losers of nine of their first 10 games, could use a little help.

Yet, owner Peter Angelos recently declined to hire the franchise’s biggest legend, Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., in a baseball capacity, according to multiple major-league sources.

Ripken met with Andy MacPhail, the team’s president of baseball operations, about rejoining the organization, sources said.

Angelos, however, nixed the idea in a separate conversation with Ripken, telling him, according to three sources, that he did not want Ripken to receive credit once the team returned to prominence...More?

source: msn.foxsports.com

July 8, 2008

Cal Ripken to visit South Africa in envoy role

source: baltimoresun.com

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