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Iron Man's timing on, as always
He got it right again. With his decision to retire at the end of the 2001 season, Cal Ripken has again displayed the proper sense of timing and judgment he has shown throughout his remarkable career. No, he isn't going to try to keep playing beyond this...Tags: Career and Workplace, Sports, Baltimore Orioles, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Cal Ripken
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Ripken to retire
Sun StaffOrioles third baseman Cal Ripken will end his Hall of Fame career at the end of this season, a spokesman for his management group confirmed early this morning. Ripken, the game's record-holder for consecutive games played and a symbol for Major League...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, The Washington Post, Bars and Clubs, Sports, New York Yankees
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One last hit parade
Sun StaffST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Two months ago, Cal Ripken looked like everything he never wanted to be. He was batting a meager .210 on the June afternoon when he announced he would retire at the end of this season, a part-time third baseman playing out the...Tags: National Basketball Association, Spring Training, Career and Workplace, Baltimore Orioles, Brooks Robinson
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Final salute to Ripken
Sun StaffThe mayor named a street after him. A former president called him the best running story in baseball. A sell-out throng cheered his every move, lighting the sky with flashbulbs and the glint of metallic confetti, chanting, "Thank you, Cal." Cal Ripken...Tags: U.S. Cellular Field, Bill Clinton, Multi-Sport Events, Fenway Park, Basketball
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Goodbye, No. 8
Sun StaffA complicated mix of pride, reflection, celebration and sadness played out simply last night on the final night of Cal Ripken's final October. The Orioles ended a 63-98 season; Ripken closed a career. Few will remember the Orioles lost to the Boston...Tags: Depression, Bill Clinton, Photography, Mike Flanagan, Basketball
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Ripken's childhood in Aberdeen, time in minors sowed seeds that bloomed into The Streak
The runner, all 240 pounds of him, barreled toward second base with one thought in mind: break up the double play. Slide, schmide. He lowered his shoulder and struck the second baseman, a scrawny ninth-grader who flew up like a rag doll. The kid fell...
Tags: Detroit Tigers, Science and Technology, MLB Rookie of the Year Award, Highway Transportation, Graduation
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For 'Jack Armstrong in spikes,' the farm was The Show
They're at the top of the stretch ... On the outside, Efficiency. Here comes Town Cheer! ... Yankee Cashmere is trying to sweep from ninth ... Yankee Cashmere comes from last to take the stretch lead! A magnificent drive to ... win the Cadillac Breeders...
Tags: Auction Service, Boston Red Sox, Arts and Culture, Lafayette College, Detroit Tigers
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Column: Take a swing at these questions
WASHINGTON — As the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball’s return with mental calisthenics. Everyone knows it was former Atlanta manager Dave Bristol who said, "Only trouble I ever had with chewing tobacco was that...Tags: Don Drysdale, Ted Lyons, Frankie Frisch, Bob Gibson, Mel Ott
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: College Baseball, Roberto Clemente Jr., New York University, Chicago Cubs, Alzheimer's Disease
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Roots of Florida Gulf Coast's tournament run trace back to Baltimore
The Cinderella team of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament hails from Florida, but its coaches have Maryland roots. Andy Enfield set scoring records at Johns Hopkins before he became head coach at Florida Gulf Coast, the darling of the...
Tags: Lacrosse, National Basketball Association, Andy Enfield, College Basketball, Florida Gulf Coast Eagles
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Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]
In opposing HR 689, a bill by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to federally reclassify marijuana as most other legal prescription drugs and remove oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration and give it to the states, The Times states in its Feb. 28...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Heroin, Politics, Science and Technology, Health Treatments
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And now, the rest of the story about Jerry Buss
It took several cups of coffee and a couple of hours one recent morning to realize there was still so much more to know about Jerry Buss. The coffee was shared with Bob Steiner, Buss' longtime public relations advisor and general confidant. We...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Ollie Mack, Mike Brown (basketball), Chick Hearn, Los Angeles Lakers
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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