1982 -- Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. began his record consecutive games streak by starting at third base against the Toronto Blue Jays.

While not cheap, a 1982 Topps Cal Ripken Jr PSA 10 card can be had for around $2000. 1992 Griffey: 17th Place In Just 142 games played, Griffey still managed to smack a career high 27 home runs.

Named for baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., Iron Man Cal will be ridden by Antonio Fresu from post 10. Also coming out of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf is Qatar Racing’s New Century (GB). Now ...

Thirty years ago, former Baltimore Orioles player Cal Ripken Jr. became baseball's "Iron Man" as he played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak. The former ...

Ripken, named after baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr., was a local celebrity of sorts ... He eventually got his own Topps baseball card. Ripken was part of a ceremonial puck drop at a Carolina ...

6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive game ... Regan: Instead of a triplet of lineup cards like normally, the American League gave me six copies of it to write through. You gave one ...

The subsequent season in 1995 ushered in the start of MLB's wild-card era, and it's now been ... Hall of Fame For a brief window in the 1990s, after Cal Ripken Jr. was in his prime but before ...

And I go, ‘Well, I'm proud to be a Ripken, but not for the reasons you might think.' ” – Ryan Ripken When Cal Ripken Jr. gets together ... Ryan won the cards marathon but his dad wanted ...

354/.478/.696 and driving in 152 runs. Finally, it’s impossible to talk about Gehrig without mentioning his consecutive games streak. Said streak would reach a truly unfathomable mark of 2,130; while ...

For 2,632 consecutive games, Cal Ripken Jr. took the field, and for 21 years, he wowed fans at Memorial Stadium and then Camden Yards. For his next act as an Oriole, the Hall of Fame shortstop ...

Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. is also apart of the new ownership group, and he took to X (formerly Twitter) to express his excitement for the future with Baltimore. “I am excited to once again ...

But for Kalamazoo native Derek Jeter, when it came time to give back to his community, one of the first people he turned to was former fellow Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. While they never ...