title: 2006 National Caring Awards. Cal Ripken Jr.
abstract: You can tell a lot about baseball legend Cal Ripken from his office in Baltimore. It's full of mahogany furniture that bespeaks his new role as businessman and philanthropist. Books are piled on the windowsill. Above the sofa are two pictures, one of the All-Century players--he and Ernie Banks are the only shortstops--and another of himself in 1995 after he broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played. Looming above it all is a huge pencil drawing of Mr. Ripken's dad, the person who shaped him as a player and a man.
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D015142:Baltimore; D001484:Baseball; D002608:Charities; D002648:Child; D004645:Empathy; D005197:Famous Persons; D005582:Foundations; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans