by bjs73 » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:42 pm
[quote:adecc3b7ce]Has anyone ever seen an injury to Ripken--even for the remainder of a game?[/quote:adecc3b7ce]
Yes but only for the remainder of the game. He is the Iron Man.
In real life, I really didn't want Cal to break the streak at the time he was making his push. Although the most I really do know about Gehrig's character is what I learned from Hollywood in the movie, "The Yankee Clipper," I thought that there should be no other.
Now that I am older and wiser, I can see that there is absolutely no other better player that could have snapped that streak than Cal Ripken Jr. I'm totally impressed with Cal as a human being and he deserves all of the accolades that have been hung on him for becoming baseball's true iron man.