| | | Hey kids! It's a small world after all! Look how easy it is to connect two people who lived decades apart -- Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig!
Six Degrees of Separation
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After more than 3,000 hits, 400 home runs, two MVP awards, 20 seasons and 19 All-Star Games, Cal Ripken Jr. announced this week that he is retiring at the end of this season. |
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Baseball's all-time Iron Man played in several All-Star games with fellow 3,000-hit club member and future Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, who was on the disabled list 10 times for 345 days during Ripken's record streak, once when he got his finger stuck in a teammate's glove. |
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While he was with the Milwaukee Brewers, Molitor played in a celebrity game against the "Happy Days" cast, including Ron Howard. "Big Al scored the winning run," Molitor remembers. "He was safe by a nose." |
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Howard directed "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," the live action remake of the animated Dr. Seuss classic. Famed horror movie actor Boris Karloff provided the narration in the original, as well as the voice of the Grinch.
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Best known for his work in such petrifying horror films as "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde," Karloff broke into movies with Gary Cooper when both had bit parts in the 1926 film, "Old Ironsides." |
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Cooper played Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees." Because Coop couldn't bat left-handed, they gave him a special uniform with the Yankees logo reversed and let him bat right-handed (he ran to third base) then flopped the negative during developing. Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive games before the disease that bears his name ended his career. The record stood for 56 years before Ripken broke it. |
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