Cal Ripken

Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball’s “Iron Man,” has amassed more than three thousand hits and four hundred home runs—one of only eight players in the history of Major League Baseball to do so. He was named Rookie of the Year in 1982, voted Most Valuable Player twice (1983 and 1991), and played in nineteen All Star Games (twice named game MVP, in 1991 and 2001). He is currently president and CEO of the Ripken Baseball Group. His previous books include The Only Way I Know, Play Baseball the Ripken Way, and Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way.