Cal Ripken Jr. was hurt and grieving and, for perhaps the first time in his entire life, no one was quite sure what to expect when he stepped on the baseball field during his 19th major-league season. The Baltimore Orioles’ “Iron Man” had voluntarily ended his record-setting streak of 2,632 consecutive games played near the … Continue reading June 13, 1999: Cal Ripken is perfect at the plate in Orioles’ 22-1 rout of Braves