Jayson Stark was 16 years into what is now a 46-year Hall of Fame baseball-writing career when he walked into Baltimore’s Camden Yards on the night of Sept. 6, 1995, knowing exactly what was about to ...

Rex Hudler pestered plate umpire Larry Barnett for a game-used baseball, one with the orange laces and number “8” stamp to commemorate Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. breaking Lou Gehrig’s ...

BALTIMORE – Thirty years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. officially became baseball’s “Iron Man” when he broke Lou Gehrig’s streak with 2,131 consecutive games played. It almost didn’t happen. More than two years ...

Former Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. is honored on the anniversary of setting the record for most consecutive games played in the MLB during a baseball game between the Orioles and the Los Angeles ...

I was only 4 on May 30th of 1982, so I wasn’t even quite yet in kindergarten the day Cal Ripken Jr, substituted a glove and bat for a lunch pail and thermos. At approximately 7 p.m. that night at ...