Central Kansas Library System

Biography of Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., discussing his childhood, his minor league career, his years in the major leagues, and his 2,131 consecutive games that broke Lou Gehrig's record.

A history of the baseball team that began in St. Louis in 1869 as the Empires and went through several name changes before moving to Baltimore.

Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...