Ripken, Cal(vin Edwin), Jr.

Ripken, Cal(vin Edwin), Jr.
born Aug. 24, 1960, Havre de Grace, Md., U.S.

U.S. baseball player.

Ripken was born into a baseball family; his father and brother both played professionally. He played for the Baltimore Orioles from 1981. In 1990 he set single-season records for highest fielding percentage by a shortstop (.996) and fewest errors by a shortstop (3), and in 1993 he broke the home-run record for a shortstop. On Sept. 6, 1995, he broke Lou Gehrig's long-standing record of consecutive games played (2,130), eventually running his streak to 2,632 games before taking a day off in 1998. Ripken retired at the end of the 2001 season.

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