The Ripken Way: A Manual For Baseball and Life

Drawing on his nearly forty years as a baseball player, coach, and scout, Ripken shares his personal advice on how to cope with success and failure, his four D's of parenting--discipline, determination, dedication, and desire--the need for a commitment to excellence, and more.

Cal Ripken, Sr., has spent most of his life playing or coaching the game of baseball, including thirty-eight years in the professional ranks with the Baltimore Orioles. He has managed at five different professional levels and owns a combined 1,032-897 (.535) record as a manager in the majors and minors. He has also served as coach for two American League pennant winners (1979, 1983) and one World Series winner (1983). He lives with his wife, Violet, in Aberdeen, Maryland, and teaches at the Cal Ripken Baseball School in Emmitsburg, Maryland.