{"id":12198,"date":"2007-01-09T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/cal-ripken-headed-to-cooperstown\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:49:00","slug":"cal-ripken-headed-to-cooperstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/cal-ripken-headed-to-cooperstown\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Ripken Headed To Cooperstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/sports\/baseball\/ripken\/bal-ripken109,0,2515929.story?coll=bal-home-headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Cal Ripken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/calripken_2131.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Receiving 98.5% of the votes, the third-highest margin in history, Baltimore Oriole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/sports\/baseball\/ripken\/bal-ripken109,0,2515929.story?coll=bal-home-headlines\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Ripken was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today<\/a>; Tony Gwynn was also voted in with 97.6% of the votes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.baltimoresun.com\/sports_custom_steele\/2007\/01\/unanimous.html\" target=\"_blank\">Many in Baltimore were hoping for a unanimous ballot<\/a> to further validate the Iron Man&rsquo;s contributions to the sport, but it was unfortunately not to be, partly because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysouthtown.com\/sports\/ladewski\/201907,081LAD2.article\" target=\"_blank\">some voters<\/a> cast blank ballots in protest over the &ldquo;&lsquo;Roids Rage Age.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to another point, although I&rsquo;m loathe to even mention his name in the same post as Cal.  Mark McGwire thankfully did not get in (not that many thought he would), garnishing a surprisingly high 23.5% of the ballot.  I for one hope he never makes it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/sports\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">sports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-7142819105863261090?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receiving 98.5% of the votes, the third-highest margin in history, Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today; Tony Gwynn was also voted in with 97.6% of the votes. Many in Baltimore were hoping for a unanimous ballot to further validate the Iron Man&rsquo;s contributions to the sport, but it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/cal-ripken-headed-to-cooperstown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cal Ripken Headed To Cooperstown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}