Cal Ripken, Jr.
Major League Baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr. (C) coaches baseball players at Komazawa Gakuen Girls Junior and Senior High School during a baseball clinic in Tokyo on November 9, 2011.
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It was horrific in many ways ... Some of them lost their entire families, they lost everything they had and in many cases they were the only ones left from their families. You realize a baseball team for most of us is a secondary family but for some of these kids it became a primary family.
It was horrific in many ways ... Some of them lost their entire families, they lost everything they had and in many cases they were the only ones left from their families. You realize a baseball team for most of us is a secondary family but for some of these kids it became a primary family.
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Newsday's coverage
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A Met for life? It just feels Wright
ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Like his boyhood hero, Cal Ripken Jr, David Wright would like to be one of those rare players who spends his entire career with one team."That's my goal because it doesn't happen too often," the Mets third baseman said Wednesday after a 2/15/12 Read more »
Around the web
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Sports capsule
Vintage High School track hurdles up for adoption The Vintage High track and field program is “adopting” hurdles for $125. For your tax deductable donation you get to add a message or advertisement to a hurdle board, as well as receive an additional gift from Napa Valley Register Read more »
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Sports capsule
Vintage High School track hurdles up for adoption The Vintage High track and field program is “adopting” hurdles for $125. For your tax deductable donation you get to add a message or advertisement to a hurdle board, as well as receive an additional gift from Napa Valley Register Read more »
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Community sports notebook
The Cal Ripken Youth Baseball program will be conduct its final registration on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Wallace Civic Center from 6-7 p.m. The league is for children ages 5-12 (as of April 30). You will need a copy of your birth certificate and league from Sentinel & Enterprise Read more »
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The STL County Libraries Know What You Want...
Cal Ripken Jr! World Series? World Schmeries. If you want to get the youth fired up about books in this town you call in the big guns. Not some little podunk baseball team like the Cardinals. We've got a serious reading problem in St. Louis (see Matheny' from Cards Diaspora Read more »
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Northampton County Miracle League gets help from Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation
Express-Times Photo | STEPHEN FLOODThe Miracle League of Northampton County is now partnering with the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation to build a baseball field for special needs children at the Charles Chrin Community Center in Palmer Township. A local organi from LehighValleyLive.com Read more »
