Connolly: Talking Ripken

Since 2001, my first year covering the Orioles and Cal Ripken Jr.'s final year playing for them, I've probably written tens of thousands of words about Aberdeen's favorite son. Now, as No. 8 officially joins the sport's other immortals in the Baseball Hall of Fame, writing again about Ripken seems unavoidable.

Dan Connolly

July 29, 2007