Cal Ripken, Sr.

In 1987 Cal Ripken Sr. became the first father to manage two sons on the same major league team, Cal Jr. and Billy, with the Baltimore Orioles. He had managed one game as an interim replacement in June 1985, then led the full 1987 season to a 67-95 finish and was fired in April 1988 after six games. Most of his coaching years were spent at third base, from 1977 through 1986 and again from 1989 through 1992. He died in Aberdeen, Maryland, in 1999, aged 63, after 36 years with the organization.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 17 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Tickfaw State Park — 20 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Whitney Plantation — 21 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Old State Capitol — 22 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.

More markers nearby

• The Civil War — steps away
• Civil War — steps away
• Civil War — steps away
• Ashland — 6.2 mi