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Article: Who's this Ripken on disabled list?
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 20, 1999
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BALTIMORE - 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," Oriole 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 from May 1982 to
September 1998, Ripken endured all sorts of bumps and bruises - in
addition to two ...