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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
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I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.
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