Cal Ripken Taps Wall Street to Reboot Youth Sports
On this episode of Power Players, baseball’s “Iron Man” lays out his vision for accessible and profitable amateur play.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Like just about every baseball star, Cal Ripken, Jr. had a role model. Before his career with the Baltimore Orioles and his record games-played streak, the legend took inspiration from his old man.
These days, sitting in the stands of a youth baseball stadium named for Cal Ripken, Sr., he explains how his massive ambition for youth sports is just a continuation of what he and his brother (and current business partner) Bill Ripken learned from their father. Back in the day, their dad put on small clinics during the off-season and brought his boys along. Now, on the first episode of a new season of the Bloomberg Originals series Power Players, Ripken explains how he is leveraging that experience—along with the power of Wall Street—to remake how American kids play sports.