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Originally Posted by ripfan008
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Hi Mike:
Thanks for that link.....For those of you who haven't seen it, Chris Dishman runs a great web site (
www.ripkenintheminors.com) about Cal's minor league cards/collectibles.
Somewhat related to this, going back 20 plus years, I met a guy who was a professor at a suburban Baltimore university, who in the summer (late 70's/through the 80's) was friendly with the guys who ran the Orioles clubhouse and was able to hang out there & work in the umpires room, run errands for players, etc.
Anyways, he was a collector well before it fashionable to do so & was able to pick up a lot of neat things. He always told me he had Cal Ripken's "shaving kit," which even I thought was odd (said Cal left it in his locker after the season was over).
Eventually, he (or his family) sold his collection and I was fortunate to be one of the first people to view what he had at the dealer's warehouse in NJ.
So, I found the "shaving kit" among a lot of other things, purchased them and brought them home.
The shaving kit was a Charlotte O's giveaway item in 1980 and I thought it was weird why Cal Jr. would use it once he was in the Major Leagues.
When I showed it to Cal for him to sign it, he laughed when I told him the story, he remembered it however he said he used it to house his batting gloves while on road trips (which made much more sense)....For me that's a much better story!
