IAL Hall of Fame: Cal Ripken – The Illowa APBA League

Cal Ripken

Shortstop inducted in 2004

Cal “Iron Man” Ripken, Jr. played every game and usually every inning from 1984 to 1999. During this tenure, Ripken helped lead the Chicago Champions to six IAL World Championships. Cal belied the image of a no-hit shortstop and hit over 30 homeruns in a season six times and drove in 100 runs five times. He is the IAL all-time leader in hits (2,843), rbis (1,652), games played (2,935), and at-bats (10,822). At the time of his induction, Ripken was 5^thall-time in homeruns with 468, 2^nd in doubles with 562 and 6^th in runs with 1,391.

YEAR	CLUB	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	SLG	OBP
1983	CHAMPS	157	581	64	141	25	2	38	88	48	90	0	.243	.489	.300
1984	CHAMPS	162	618	84	164	34	3	23	103	40	99	3	.265	.442	.310
1985	CHAMPS	162	634	95	191	35	10	33	92	72	98	1	.301	.544	.373
1986	CHAMPS	161	615	71	155	24	0	34	88	52	52	1	.252	.457	.310
1987	CHAMPS	161	596	101	166	28	2	38	107	69	75	0	.279	.523	.353
1988	CHAMPS	161	610	97	154	25	3	41	115	77	77	0	.252	.505	.336
1989	CHAMPS	161	572	86	134	25	1	33	82	79	94	1	.234	.455	.327
1990	CHAMPS	161	593	73	138	26	0	30	80	61	103	0	.233	.428	.304
1991	CHAMPS	161	582	75	137	31	1	20	70	58	62	2	.235	.395	.305
1992	CHAMPS	161	650	102	181	31	1	28	114	48	58	7	.278	.458	.328
1993	CHAMPS	161	607	56	158	41	0	9	61	41	55	0	.260	.372	.307
1994	CHAMPS	161	589	64	140	20	2	23	73	58	55	0	.238	.396	.306
1995	CHAMPS	161	606	77	196	31	4	14	96	55	47	0	.323	.457	.380
1996	CHAMPS	161	610	74	157	39	1	22	92	36	66	0	.257	.433	.299
1997	CHAMPS	162	629	80	163	42	2	29	125	48	79	0	.259	.471	.312
1998	CHAMPS	162	582	59	152	41	0	16	89	51	83	1	.261	.414	.321
1999	CHAMPS	161	564	67	149	26	0	14	68	54	74	0	.264	.385	.328
2000	CHAMPS	86	330	37	114	27	0	16	68	12	24	0	.345	.573	.368
2001	CHAMPS	64	201	24	43	10	1	7	40	16	23	0	.214	.378	.272
2002	CHAMPS	48	53	5	10	1	0	0	1	4	9	0	.189	.208	.246
20	Totals	2935	10822	1391	2843	562	33	468	1652	979	1323	16	.263	.450	.324