May 7, 2009
I attended a screening last night of “A Shortstop in China,” a documentary produced by a Baltimore-area film company on Cal Ripken Jr.’s trip to China in 2007 as a diplomatic envoy for the U.S. State Department.
The piece debuts on MASN Friday after the Orioles/Yankees game, and if you are at all interested in the following things, I recommend you watch it: Ripken, diplomacy, politics, business, the Orioles, Condoleezza Rice, Ripken Baseball Inc., Eastern culture, kids, warm fuzzies (it got a little dusty in the room at one point), and what the heck baseball players do with their lives after they’re off the field.
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Ripken, former O’s teammate and All Star B. J. Surhoff (left) and director Chris Beutler of Renegade all took questions after the 45-minute screening. I asked Ripken and Surhoff if there was anything that struck them about teaching kids from a different culture, language barrier aside. They both said....
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