Roch Kubatko

Tenth of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. The last season at Memorial Stadium brought tears from sentimental fans, more losses than wins from the Orioles, and another...

Ninth of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. Cal Ripken's 1990 season evolved into a glove story. The Orioles finished nine games below .500 after making an improbable...

Eighth of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. The healing began with one swing. Cal Ripken's bat met a Roger Clemens fastball, and more than a two-run deficit...

Seventh of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. Slow starts engulfed Cal Ripken and the Orioles in 1988. Only Ripken made any sort of recovery. Through 12 games,...

Sixth of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. His consecutive-innings streak ended in 1987. So did the warm feelings that accompanied his father's hiring as Orioles manager. The...

Of all the lessons learned by Cal Ripken, perhaps none was tougher than what came in 1986. That's the year Ripken learned to lose. The Orioles finished last in the...

Jim Palmer had retired after a month in 1984. Al Bumbry and Ken Singleton were released after that season. Cal Ripken needed big hands to carry all the torches that...

When the Detroit Tigers won 35 of their first 40 games in 1984, building a huge lead in the American League East when no wild card existed, there wasn't much...

The second of a series recounting Cal Ripken's 20 major-league seasons. The curtain to the 1983 season lowered on the careers of three future Hall of Famers: catcher Johnny Bench,...

This is where The Streak began, in 1982, its inception dependent on the patience of manager Earl Weaver, who continued to write Cal Ripken's name into the lineup until the...