Sports
The Baltimore Orioles’ clubhouse, transformed into a room full of Ripkens this spring, could almost have served as a surrogate living room to a family whose home often has been whatever ballpark they happened to visit.
March 25, 1987
Photos spanning Ripken’s 21 seasons with the Orioles
Aug. 18, 2015
Cal Ripken Sr., whose contributions to the Baltimore Orioles extend well beyond fathering and tutoring one of the best players in franchise history, died Thursday of lung cancer.
March 26, 1999
March 12, 2014
Baseball, the very thing that bonds Cal Ripken Jr. and his father, once threatened to pull them apart.
June 20, 1992
Once the Baltimore Orioles have eliminated themselves mathematically from what has become a ho-hum race in the Eastern Division of the American League, attention should be given the possibility of moving Cal Ripken Sr. to the active roster for the express purpose of letting him become the first father to join his two sons in a major-league lineup.
Sept. 5, 1990
The 1951 St. Louis Browns used 3-foot-7 midget Eddie Gaedel as a pinch-hitter.
Sept. 6, 1990
Cal Ripken Sr., the Baltimore Orioles’ third base coach, is expected to be named to succeed Earl Weaver as manager of the Orioles for the 1987 season.
Sept. 25, 1986
World & Nation
Details emerge in gunpoint abduction of Cal Ripken Jr.’s mother
July 25, 2012
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A consumer’s guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise.
May 10, 2004