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Blue Jays birthdays: Rick Cerone Share this story Rick Cerone turns 67 today. Cerone was an original John Lowenstein, four months and one day before their first game, sending Rico Carty to Cleveland for him. We had taken Carty from Cleveland in the expansion draft and would get him back in March of 1978. Cerone played in our first ever game, going 2 for 4 with a double in our win over the White Sox (in the snow). He played four games in that first week before being sent down to AAA. He came back for a game in May and then was up for good in mid-August. He hit .200/.245/.270 in 31 games.

Games-played streaks, Part 3: Cal Ripken Jr. By JohnW53 on Apr 27, 2021, 5:56am CDT + 15 games during his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played from 1925 to 1939. As described in a previous post, in 5 of those games, Gehrig was replaced with a pinch runner in the top of the first inning. In 2 more, he was replaced in the bottom of the first. He also was lifted in the second inning of 4 games. How often did Cal Ripken Jr. make only a minimal appearance on his way to smashing Gehrig's record, ultimately playing in 2,632 straight games from 1982 through 1998? Remarkably, just ......