Around these parts, where Cal Ripken, Jr. has processed from a baseball hero to a cottage industry, one of the initial steps in that process, not long after he broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak, was the establishment of a Ripken Museum. A friend of mine was the first head of that museum; and they erected a billboard on a heavily traveled route in the Aberdeen (MD) area. There were only two words on the billboard, in huge, larger-than-second-coming type: RIPKIN MUSEUM. Note the misspelling of Ripken. And the museum head swears that billboard was proofed more than once before it was put up. Whoops!
Around these parts, where Cal Ripken, Jr. has processed from a baseball hero to a cottage industry, one of the initial steps in that process, not long after he broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak, was the establishment of a Ripken Museum. A friend of mine was the first head of that museum; and they erected a billboard on a heavily traveled route in the Aberdeen (MD) area. There were only two words on the billboard, in huge, larger-than-second-coming type: RIPKIN MUSEUM. Note the misspelling of Ripken. And the museum head swears that billboard was proofed more than once before it was put up. Whoops!