Lou Gehrig played 2,130 games in a row, a streak so long that people called it unbreakable. On September 6, 1995, Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st straight game. When the game became official in the middle of the fifth inning, the numbers on the warehouse beyond right field flipped from 2,130 to 2,131 and Camden Yards erupted. The ovation would not stop until teammates Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Bonilla physically pushed him out of the dugout to take a lap around the field shaking hands with fans. Ripken said he never really allowed himself to think about the streak. He just showed up and played, day after day.
