Lifelong Orioles fan Rick Taylor has spent 28 years collecting tickets from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-game streak. Now, he’s just eight tickets short of completing what memorabilia experts call one of the most extraordinary baseball ticket collections…
Baltimore Orioles fan Rick Taylor is just eight tickets away from gathering a ticket from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632-game "Iron Man" streak. The 69-year-old collector has spent 28 years tracking down tickets from the streak, which spanned from 1982 to 1998, and now stores the collection across 16 boxes in his Maryland home.
The final missing tickets are all from 1980s road games against the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals. Memorabilia experts estimate that completing the collection could make it worth over $100,000 at auction, particularly as modern sports transition away from physical paper tickets.
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