On June 28th Matthew and I drove down to Baltimore (about a three hour drive) to watch an Orioles game. I hope most of you remember that I am a Baltimore Orioles fan. Matthew, unfortunately, is not, but he enthusiastically comes to all the games I go to. I try to go one game a year down in Baltimore, and I specifically picked that 28th day in June. The reason was the give-a-way that game. They were giving away a Cal RipkenJr. bobble head doll but dressed up as Iron Man, the Marvell Comics superhero.
Cal Ripken is a famous, hall of fame Orioles, and one of the most popular. But he has long retired (2001), but he is now part of the Orioles ownership and keeps in touch with the fans. His popularity has not faded. Cal was known as “the Iron Man” because he played in 2632 consecutive games over seventeen years. Can you imagine, seventeen years without missing a game. It is more than remarkable. It is superhuman.
So the Orioles organization came up with a bobble head doll of Cal dressed as the super hero. Now, truth be told, Iron Man was my favorite comic book hero as a kid. The identity of Iron Man was a man named Tony Stark, who was an engineer and designed and invented the Iron Man get up. You may know this from the Iron Man movies. I can’t help but think that part of me went into engineering because I identified with Tony Stark.
So when the Iron Man bobble head came out I just had to get it.
Here
are some pictures of the bobble head.
The detail in the Iron Man uniform is amazing. This is one of the better bobble head dolls.
Oh about the game. It was another of the 2025 games of a disastrous season. Orioles lost 11-3 to the Tampa Bay Rays. Not only that, it was a day game, and the sun and humidity were brutal. I think it was in the 90s with high humidity. It was a real penance to sit there.
Here
is a nice picture of me and Matthew though.
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