Cal Ripken Jr!World Series? World Schmeries. If you want to get the youth fired up about books in this town you call in the big guns. Not some little podunk baseball team like the Cardinals. We've got a serious reading problem in St. Louis (see Matheny's bookshelf below) and we need a warrior to fight the fight for reading over the long-haul.Cal Ripken Jr. knows something about plugging away.If you thought Cal was here just because Baltimore is hellhole (see Wire, The) then you'd be wrong. He's here to sell his new book and his News release makes it known that if you present Cal with something to sign other than his book you just bought... well, you can cram that idea right in your iron, man.You can read the whole press release: LINK HEREIs it me or does the book make it sound like we've got some unresolved anger issues brewing? To wit: "He’s overweight, scared and hates his new life in Dullsville, Maryland, aka Baltimore, where he’s a target for brutal teas...
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