The Ripken Way
The first book I read this summer was a non-fiction piece written by Cal Ripken Sr., called the Ripken Way. There are many ways in which mr. Ripken posseses qualitites that are very human: he was a normal person, just like anybody else, not just an extraordinary baseball player and manager; he was married to a wife and had four children. He was a hard worker, and through out the book he has an emphasis on working hard in life in order to be successful, and lastly, he was a very unique person, in many ways.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
Some things he has done weren't the smartest things to do, but he felt was the right thing to do. 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. Bibliography The Ripken Way Cal Ripken. Everybody knows (whether you're a player or not) that when you're batting, and a high speed fast ball is pitched at you, and hits you, it hurts. An example is his son, Cal Ripken jr. He has done things that many other men would never do. If his father taught him one thing, it would be to work hard and work at whatever your weak at over and over again (correctly; the right way). Cal had worked hard, the skills he lacked, he drilled correctly and repeatidly until he had got the skills he needed. Cal, however, has a different view; even though he has been hit and has admitted it's painful, he was just stick to his opinion, that "the ball only weighs five-and-a-quater onces, how much can it hurt?" Another display of this optimistic, tough attitude was on a winter day. In conlusion, Cal Ripken was a very tough man, and also a very hard worker, which was why he was so successful. His neighborhood was small, and snowplows didn't get to it that often, but every once in a while when it snowed hard, mr. There were man lessons learned from reading this book, not only for baseball, but for life as well. Eventually when he was a senior, he had the best batting average on the team, was one of the biggest players, and had developed all the skills he had needed from all of the hard work. But, as he was raised by his father, he learned propper and neccessary life values in order to suceed in whatever he does. As a matter of fact, when he was a young high school student, he had a poor batting average, a weak arm, lacked in some basic skills, and wasn't too tall either.
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