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Originally Posted by d-ray657
The answer to a trivia question about Cal Ripken has to do with a star basketball player from the University of Oklahoma. Ryan Minor made a bigger impact in basketball at OU, making a couple of All-America teams. He also played on the baseball team when it won the College World Series. Anyway, he went pro in baseball, and started at third base in Cal's place when Cal ended his streak. Unfortunately, that was pretty much the highlight of his career. (It is really amazing how many extremely talented athletes don't make it in the bigs, but at least he got his cuppa coffee.)
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D-Ray
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I remember Minor. He was actually pretty darned good, just had the misfortune to play behind Cal. But your point's a good one. A hell of a lot of really good ball players never make it to the show.
John