Cal Ripken

Orioles legend Cal Ripken, Jr. joined The Norris & Davis Show to discuss concerns about the Orioles, his Aberdeen Ironbirds, Ripken Gourmet Burgers, investing & more.   Filed under: Heard On, MLB, Orioles, Podcast, Sports [...]  

Cal Ripken Jr. and Monkton-based Roseda Beef have teamed up to bring “Ripken Gourmet Burgers” to 30 Giant Food stores in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia with plans to double the number of distribution locations soon.  

Cal Ripken Jr. is bringing his Hall of Fame name to the gourmet hamburger market. Ripken Baseball and Baltimore’s Roseda Beef are partnering on a new line of frozen steak burgers known as Ripken Gourmet Burgers. The 6-ounce burgers are available exclusively at 30 Giant Food stores in Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia. Each four-pack of burgers cost $9.99. As part of the deal, Giant will donate a portion of proceeds from the burgers to...  

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has written a storybook career many aspiring baseball players can only dream of. During his 18-year career, Jeter has treated the Big Apple to spectacular defensive plays, thrilling game winning hits and the euphoric ...  

Vinny and Rob were joined by baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. in studio talking Adam Jones, BRob & more!  

Chipper Jones says his baseball idols growing up were Cal Ripken Jr. and Mickey Mantle. "I came up as a shortstop, so I wanted to emulate who I thought was the best shortstop in the game. And Cal Ripken was it. My dad always brought me up switch ...  

Yankees 14, Flomaton White 1 A trio of Yankees pitchers—Jeremy Sims, Kristian Taylor and Brandon Moye ... Hobbs had three singles and Sawyer Lewis had one. For the Cardinals, Konner Wood and Samuel Bosarge pitched and combined to allow ...  

It was an exciting comeback and victory for the Naples Lions in the Cal Ripken Spring League championship game at Veterans Park on May 11.  

Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. Is coming to Greenville Tuesday, to help announce a very special project. The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and the Exceptional Community Baseball League are partnering to refurbish the Sarah Vaughn Field of ...  

The youth eventually found himself at third base after the ... Florida Prowlers/Team Easton: Seeking 9U players interested in travel baseball. Contact: Randy at 239-293-3081. Golden Gate Hammerheads: 11U travel team seeking players for the ...  

He collected 3,184 hits, 431 home runs and 1,695 RBIs. Growing up, he never imagined such success. "At 10, I was batboy for the Orioles' farm club in Asheville [N.C.] where my dad managed. I thought those minor league guys had the best jobs in ...  

CANTON: The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation announced that it will be partnering with the Ohio Office of the Attorney General to bring its Badges for Baseball program to three at-risk communities in Ohio this year. Vice Chairmen Cal Ripken Jr. and Ohio Attorney ...  

Ripken was accompanied by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. The attorney general’s office last year asked Ripken’s Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation to expand its program to Ohio. Badges for Baseball features local police officers incorporating lessons about ...  

Baltimore’s own iron man swings a hammer instead of a bat. Cal Ripken Jr. is helping re-build tornado ravaged homes in the south.  

ST. LOUIS, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades Energizer has supported organizations helping to make a positive impact in communities here and around the world. This spring as part of the Energizer campaign—that's positivenergy—they're "building" on that commitment...  

Major League Baseball's Ironman made a stop in Joplin Wednesday to help build houses with Habitat for Humanity.  

Dan Morey pitched two innings for BAC (0-4) and was replaced by Anthony Mitchell, who recorded six strikeouts. Leading the winners' offensive attack were Joe Merrill (3 for 3) and Edgar Dedos (2 for 3). For the Tigers, Elijah Allen smacked a ...  

JOPLIN, Mo. - A Baseball Hall of Fame member who set the record for consecutive games played is headed to Joplin...  

Cal Ripken Jr. joins rebuilding effort in Joplin Chris Tucker never imagined baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. would be involved in rebuilding his house.  

In a radio appearance on MLB Network Radio’s Ripken Baseball with his brother, Billy, Cal Ripken said he did not agree with Cole Hamels explanation for hitting Bryce Harper in Sunday’s game against the Washington Nationals.  

In fact, he was the first inductee into the Energizer Bunny Hall of Fame. “If you think about the Energizer Bunny and what he stands for ... keep going, keep going, Cal is really the epitome of that from a sports and baseball standpoint,” said Elaine ...  

Austin Majors, Kristian Taylor, Brandon Moye and Jeremy Sims all pitched in the win for the Yankees ... For the Cardinals, Troy McCall and Konner Wood pitched in the loss and allowed nine hits, 18 runs, walked seven and struck out five.  

Cal Ripken Jr. joins rebuilding effort in Joplin Chris Tucker never imagined baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. would be involved in rebuilding his house. Plans for a new turf at Carnie Smith Stadium and an increase in single-game football ticket prices ...  

Carson Campbell picked up the win on the mound for BRM while Russell Potter took the loss for McDonald’s, 0-2. Campbell pitched 2 1/3 innings and struck out four batters while giving up three runs on one hit and four walks. Bailey Quint then came in and ...  

Lou Gehrig earned the nickname “The Iron Horse” by distinguishing himself as a power-hitting and durable New York Yankees’ first baseman who set a major league record by playing in 2,130 straight games over 15 seasons. Infielder Cal Ripken Jr. of the ...  

Mike Rizzo then suggested that Hamels’s decision “ain ... This is one way of him saying I don’t like the way Bryce Harper has come up here in the big leagues and gotten all this attention, and oh by the way is raking, so I’m gonna ...  

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Offensive standouts for the winners were Mike Bellar, Troy Brassard and Anthony Saladini, while Sam Robichaud and Damon Charrette led the Red Sox. The defensive standout for the game was the Red Sox's Ben Almeida.  

Is Bryce Harper a wee bit cocky? Duh. Is that a bad thing? Reasonable people can disagree. But even some beloved legends evidently don’t think it is. Here’s Cal Ripken, discussing Harper’s chances of remaining in the big leagues on MLB Network Radio’s Ripken Baseball program. Read full article >>  

Cal Ripken Fitchburg's Major League division celebrated opening day Monday evening at Ansin Park in Fitchburg. Nick Mallard snapped these photos during the festivities.  

Attorney General Mike Dewine and Cal Ripken Jr. announced Wednesday the beginning of the Badges for Baseball program in Youngstown, Canton and Zanesville. The program was created by the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice.  

Baseball is a game of numbers.  

The Trumann Storm took first place in the Cal Ripken 12 and under 2012 Classic division tournament play Saturday, May 5 at Trumann's Fleming Fields. Five teams from NEA competed.  

NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk Cal Ripken Baseball celebrated opening day Saturday at Fox Run School. The festivities included food, a brief ceremony with several guests and games after the celebration. Among the guests were Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia, State Rep. Larry Cafero and Babe ...  

Bert Sugar, best known as a boxing historian, died Sunday from cardiac arrest. He was 75. Sugar is remembered for wearing his fedora, chomping on his cigar and churning out story after wonderful story about boxing. O's fans: Download the ...  

Jackson Easley showed a powerful bat and Arthur Steadman was dominant on the mound. Hillcats 14, Lugnuts 12 Ned Brady and Logan Johnson led Bobby Valentines Sports Academy Hillcats defense to a 14-12 win over Camsan Inc. Lansing Lugnuts. Mac Busby’s ...  

Rangers 12, Canes 3 The Rangers trio of pitching allowed one hit in a 12-3 win over the Canes. Kristian Nelson, Matt Thomas and Jacobey Hawthorne allowed one hit, three runs, four walks and struck out 11. Dillon Emmons pitched for the Canes and ...  

For the Cardinals, Josh McCall, Samuel Bosarge and Konner Wood all pitched in the win allowing ... The Yankees pounded out 17 hits while pitchers Austin Majors, Jeremy Sims and Josh Barksdale pitched a no hitter. The Yankee trio on the mound ...  

Former baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. helped make a difference in Miami with a Habitat for Humanity project. Ripken Jr., along with volunteers, teamed up to help build new homes and revitalize existing ones for needy families. "One of the great things about ...  

oh, wait. Twenty years ago, Oriole Park at Camden Yards brought in an era of fake history in baseball architecture. So it fits that The Baltimore Sun’s roundup of the park’s greatest moments would feature fake history too. For the No. 1 moment, baseball beat reporter Dan Connolly described the night Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games streak, on Sept. 6, 1995: In the fourth inning, He hit a 3-0 pitch from Shawn Boskie into deep...  

#myths Twenty years ago, Oriole Park at Camden Yards brought in an era of fake history in baseball architecture. So it fits that The Baltimore Sun's roundup of the park's greatest moments would feature fake history too. For the No. 1 moment, baseball beat reporter Dan Connolly described the night Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games streak, on Sept. 6, 1995: More »  

Joplin, 7-8, plays another makeup game at its new home field on Friday, facing Willard. Cal Ripken Jr. assists the Joplin Area Habitat for Humanity in rebuilding a home on South Wall Avenue. Cal Ripken Jr. joins rebuilding effort in Joplin Chris Tucker ...  

BASEBALL Nashua Cal Ripken Central League takes field for first time Nashua Northwest and Nashua West are officially one. The two Gate City Cal Ripken leagues merged in the offseason, setting the stage for a big celebration this spring. The newly-born Nashua Cal Ripken Central League held its inaugural Opening Day ceremony on Saturday, April 28 – complete with a parade of the league’s 37 teams entering Memorial Field at the Ledge Street...  

Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. was in town last week to announce a partnership that will result in the refurbishment of the Sarah Vaughn Field of Dreams, a baseball park specifically built for children with physical and developmental disabilities.  

Wilmington City Manager Sterling Cheatham proposes the city should hire Ripken Design, founded by Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. and his brother Bill, to manage Wilmington ... Design Director of Projects Jim Arnold said. Arnold said their ...  

Will a new $30 million stadium in downtown Hagerstown keep the owner of the Hagerstown Suns Single-A baseball team from moving to Winchester, Va.? Last week the Ripken Design firm, headed by Hall of Fame baseball great Cal Ripken Jr., released a feasibility study for a multi-purpose sports and events center for Hagerstown, but team owner Bruce Quinn isn't giving any guarantees he won't move the team.  

Ty Harvell, Earl Dolithite and Brandon Coleman was 1-for-2 with one run scored. Cole Jernigan was 2-for-2 with two runs scored while Brandon Smith scored two runs and J.D. Hartin and Jaxson Flores scored one run each. Flores and Hartin pitched ...  

Seattle-based CenterField Sports is auctioning off the old Kingdome visitors dugout on eBay. Company president Ben Greaby said ... Greaby says he’s currently negotiating to sell the dugout to Ripken Design, a firm co-owned by Hall of Famer Cal Ripken ...  

Riley Hammond, Carpenter and Hunter White all pitched for ... Alex Cash and Jerry Carnley had the two hits for Flomaton. Skylar Busby, Blake Mallett and Tyler Merritt all pitched for Flomaton and allowed one hit, eight runs, walked nine and ...  

Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. told USA TODAY Sports. "All the commotion that was caused last year, and the criticism that he had lost some steps, felt familiar to me in a lot of ways. "Deep inside, it had to bother him. I felt for him.  

Weston Riddle, P.J. Lovelace, Morgan Riley, Aaron Bosarge and Hayden Winchester all had singles in the ... Gabby Patterson was 3-for-3 with a single, double and a triple and Lucie Thorpe was 2-for-2. Anna Knowles had one hit.  

Jaxson Flores was 1-for-2 with a single and Brandon Coleman was 1-for-3 with a single. Logan Bush and J.D. Hartin scored two runs while Mac Baxter and Ty Harvell scored one run each in the win. Flores got the win on the mound going four innings ...  

Ripken Foundation Partners To Refurbish Greenville ParkWCTI12.comKids In Distressed Situations (KIDS), a charity partner of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, provided over 3000 new Lego toys worth $39000 during the ceremony, as well as for use towards any additional on-going programs throughout the year.and more »  

Sponsor Colonial West Chevrolet of Fitchburg has donated some much-needed equipment and $500 to the Cal Ripken Fitchburg youth baseball league.  

Very much in the spirit of Cal Ripken Jr., the renovation project at the Sarah Vaughn Field of Dreams isn’t about the Baseball Hall of Famer who endorses it but about those whose own baseball dreams are realized there. Ripken was at the field for ...  

The Wilmington City Council on Tuesday will consider hiring the the Ripken BPM Team, owned by Baseball Hall of Fame member Cal Ripken Jr., as a project manager to study the feasibility of building a stadium in Wilmington that could bring a minor ...  

The Wilmington City Council on Tuesday will consider hiring a company owned by Baseball Hall of Fame member Cal Ripken Jr. as a project manager to study the feasibility of building a stadium ... of possible stadium sites and to eventually ...  

Pigeon Forge is located at (35.793946, -83.564124) on the West Prong of the Little Pigeon River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.6 square miles (30.0 km²), all of it land. There were 2,021 ...  

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The developer has closed on a deal to purchase 120 acres on Teaster Land where a new baseball complex is set to be built, according to Pigeon Forge Mayor David Wear. The city has already agreed to buy 50 acres of ...  

Angels 4, Mets 0 Drew Williamson started on the mound for the Angels and pitched three innings, allowing no runs, one hit, struck out eight, and walked none in a 4-0 shutout win. At the plate for the Angels, Williamson was 1-for-3 with a single ...  

BALTIMORE (AP) Twenty years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. had mixed emotions leading up to the inaugural opening day at Camden Yards. Like so many others, it didn't take long for Ripken become a fan of the new ballpark. On the 20th anniversary of that historic first ...  

"Maybe it was groovy. Maybe it wasn't. Doesn't matter." The headstone of Don Cornelius. Nevin Shapiro, American Hero  

BALTIMORE (AP)—Twenty years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. had mixed emotions leading up to the inaugural opening day at Camden Yards. Like so many others, it didn’t take long for Ripken become a fan of the new ballpark. On the 20th anniversary of that historic ...  

BALTIMORE -- Twenty years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. had mixed emotions leading up to the inaugural opening day at Camden Yards. Like so many others, it didn't take long for Ripken become a fan of the new ballpark. On the 20th anniversary of that ...  

BALTIMORE --Twenty years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. had mixed emotions leading up to the inaugural opening day at Camden Yards. Like so many others, it didn't take long for Ripken become a fan of the new ballpark. On the 20th anniversary of that ...  

Robinson isn't the only former Oriole in attendance. Former O's outfielder Larry Sheets coaches the Gilman team, which features Ryan Ripken and Gavin Sheets. Cal Ripken and former O's pitchers Ken Dixon and John Miller also are in the dugout.  

Besides the pomp and circumstance that normally comes with Opening Day ceremonies, the 2012 edition for the Napa Babe Buth/Cal Ripken League was about remembering the past as much as welcoming the present at Silverado Middle School on Saturday. Don Ramey ...  

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- It looks like Wilmington City Council knows who it wants to lead its ballpark plan. The agenda for Tuesday night's City Council meeting includes two ordinances to hire and pay Ripken Design of Baltimore, MD. One ordinance would award Ripken Design, which is owned and operated by Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and his brother Bill, a contract for "Baseball Project Management Services." The other...  

After Colin Gimblett popped to the catcher ... Dustin Rothchild led off with a walk and scored on Alex Murphy's double to the right-center field gap. Farley followed with another double to plate Murphy. Curley right hander Zach Salkowski ...  

After Colin Gimblett popped to the catcher ... Dustin Rothchild led off with a walk and scored on Alex Murphy's double to the right-center field gap. Farley followed with another double to plate Murphy. Curley right hander Zach Salkowski ...  

HAGERSTOWN, MD - At City Hall, Suns fans and officials paid close attention to Ripken Design as they disclosed details on their Feasibility Study for a Downtown Multi-Use Outdoor Sports and Events Center. "You have an opportunity to bring everybody ...  

AUGUSTA,Ga -- The Ripken Group is pitching plans for a new "outdoor civic center" along Augusta's riverfront ... It also calls for an events center and club level seating for the soon to be merged Augusta State University and Georgia Health Sciences ...  

AUGUSTA,Ga -- It is being called a new entertainment complex along Augusta's riverfront. We are talking baseball, football, and even an events center that would sit on the old Golf and Gardens property. The Ripken Group made their pitch to city and school ...  

Gilman first baseman Ryan Ripken, tall and lanky ... On this evening against Calvert Hall, a game Gilman would win, 4-0, Lee Lipinski is batting with two on. He smacks the ball away from Ripken down the third base line. Ripken retreats to ...  

Ripken Design has many other stadium projects that we are working on in various markets around the country to help improve local communities and will now place our focus on those facilities moving forward.” The firm declined to comment further.  

Orioles hall-of-famer Cal Ripken Jr. was always quick with the assist, and now he's giving a helping hand to the tornado-ravaged town of Joplin, Mo.