First, when most people think of Cal Ripken, they think of one of the all time great baseball players, and he was that. But, he was also just an ordinary person, with a normal life. Like most other people, he was married to a wife, and also had four children. He was just not a ball player, he was a dedicated husband and father that did the best he could to raise his kids and teach them the correct way to do things, and teach them the lessons in life. He was a busy man, because of his baseball carear, he had lots of time taken away from his family as both a baseball player and as a manager. He took advantage of any time he got to spend time with his children. An example of this was when he was managing, and ran baseb

In conlusion, Cal Ripken was a very tough man, and also a very hard worker, which was why he was so successful. In his book, working hard and not giving up is stressed a lot of times, because hard work is what got him where he is today. There were man lessons learned from reading this book, not only for baseball, but for life as well.

all clinics. He decided to take the difficult task of not only attending these baseball clinics, but also taking his children so he could be with them. As busy as he was, he took time out of his extremely busy life to get quality time with his family, this took much sacrifice, but it's a human traight, like any other man, not matter what he may be doing.

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