On Saturday, The Cap Ripken Sr. Foundation hosted its 2025 annual Aspire Gala to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 2131, a commemorative baseball created by the MLB to honor Cal Ripken Jr's ...

7 if he had his way. His father wore that number ... Years before Holliday was born, that number belonged to longtime Orioles coach Cal Ripken Sr. No Baltimore player had worn it since his son ...

But even more notably, he’ll wear number seven for the Orioles, not worn since Cal Ripken Sr. passed in 1999 ... J_Holliday7 will be wearing dad’s #7,” Ripken Jr. wrote.