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When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?
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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I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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