Orioles fan nears completion of 28-year ticket collection quest
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 23 Oct, 15:02 · Archive
Rick Taylor, a retired food industry salesman, has spent 28 years collecting tickets from Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632-game playing streak, and needs just eight more to complete the collection.
Rick Taylor, a lifelong Baltimore Orioles fan, has spent the past 28 years collecting tickets from each game of Cal Ripken Jr.'s historic 'Iron Man' streak. The streak lasted 17 seasons from 1982 to 1998, during which Ripken never missed a game in the Orioles' lineup across 2,632 consecutive contests.
Taylor, a retired 69-year-old food industry salesman who lives outside Baltimore, is now just eight tickets short of completing his collection. His assemblage fills 16 boxes in his basement, with each ticket individually protected in a hard plastic holder and labelled with its corresponding game number.
Experts have already recognised Taylor's effort as one of the most impressive baseball ticket collections ever assembled. Mike Provenzale, a production manager at Heritage Auctions, described the undertaking as astonishing. Taylor himself said he never expected to get this far, but remained confident he could complete the final single digits of his quest. Many observers believe Ripken's consecutive games record will never be broken.
How it is being reported
- For decades, he’s hunted tickets from Cal Ripken’s ‘Iron Man’ streak. Just 8 elude himLifelong Orioles fan Rick Taylor has spent 28 years collecting tickets from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-game streak.Clickorlando · 22 Oct, 21:54
- For decades, he’s hunted tickets from Cal Ripken’s ‘Iron Man’ streak. Just 8 elude himLifelong Orioles fan Rick Taylor has spent 28 years collecting tickets from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-game streak.News4Jax · 22 Oct, 21:54
In this story: Rick Taylor · Cal Ripken Jr. · Baltimore Orioles · Heritage Auctions
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