Article: Iron Man Ripken on Disabled List

DAVID GINSBURG, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
04-20-1999
Iron Man Ripken on Disabled List

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The words, in tiny type on the transaction list, had never before been written:

BALTIMORE ORIOLES -- Placed 3B Cal Ripken on 15-day disabled list.

Ripken, baseball's Iron Man, went on the disabled list Monday for the first time in his 19-year career. The move, made because Ripken has a sore back, is retroactive to Sunday.

``It's remarkable he's gone this long without being put on the disabled list,'' Orioles general manager Frank Wren said. ``The pounding he takes, the work ethic he has, it's just amazing this had not happened before.''

While playing in a record 2,632 straight games ...

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