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Baltimore Orioles: Cal Ripken Striking Out Hunger on Twitter

By Kristen Bentley|
BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 09: Former Baltimore Orioles Bill Ripken #3 and Cal Ripken Jr. #8 talk during a ceremony for the 1989 Orioles team before the game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Houston Astros at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on August 9, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 09: Former Baltimore Orioles Bill Ripken #3 and Cal Ripken Jr. #8 talk during a ceremony for the 1989 Orioles team before the game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Houston Astros at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on August 9, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)

The Baltimore Orioles favorite son finally made his first appearance on social media.

In his first video post on Twitter, Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken Jr., shared that he is joining his father’s organization to fight hunger during the COVID-19 shut downs.

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation has worked with at-risk youth in Baltimore and around the nation. The Foundation has created Youth Development Parks to give at-risk youth safe places to play. They also work with adult mentors to help at-risk children at schools, too.

With Ripken’s announcement on Twitter, the Foundation is shifting focus to feeding Americans with food insecurities. The organization is partnering with Feeding America to help people around the United States.

The Foundation along with other partners are contributing $200,000 to get the ball rolling in the Strike Out Hunger campaign.

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At the end of the video, Ripken talks about how he is best known for his streak. He invites others to join him in creating their own streak by helping others.

Cal Ripken Sr. spent over 30 years of his life in baseball, never playing in the MLB. He was better known as the coach who developed the “Oriole Way” which included the fundamentals and philosophies that led minor league players to the Major League.

In the forward of the book Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way: Jim Leyland said about Ripken Sr.: “To this day, I believe he was one of the best fundamental baseball teachers I have ever been around.”

It is clear that Ripken was an outstanding baseball coach. Two of his children, Cal and Billy Ripken both played in the MLB. Ripken did become the official Orioles manager in 1987 after he would fill in for Earl Weaver when the long-time manager was ejected. Ripken did get to manage when both of his sons were on the team, making him the only MLB manager to do so. He was relieved of his duties in 1988 after six games of a rebuilding season.

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