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Cal Ripken Jr.: The Iron Man
FromWhat It Takes®
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Show up. Be there for your team. Play your best. These are the values that Cal Ripken Jr. embodied - every single day of his career. His commitment to baseball was beyond compare. Ripken holds the record for the most consecutive games played in professional baseball: 2,632. He famously surpassed Lou Gehrig's long-standing record of 2130 games, 25 years ago this month, and then he just kept on going. Ripken reminisces here about his proud life as a Baltimore Oriole, and he talks about the important lessons he learned that we can all apply to our own lives, on or off the field.
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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