I have a newfound appreciation of Cal Ripkin

There's the Mary Prankster song, "Blue Skies over Dundalk"...
But I have to make a clean break and I have to do it quick cause the pain you give me babe would make Cal Ripkin call in sick
I know more about this now, thanks to the episode of the Ken Burns documentary I watched last night. Many other interesting parts to it, also.
I usually don't watch baseball.