Check out our camp lineup for Spring and Summer 2012 - registration is now open to the public! Campers get on the field with former major leaguers and learn what it takes to make it to The Show!
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Third Annual Ben Grubbs & Lardarius Webb Charity Softball Game
June 3, 2012 at Ripken Stadium
See your favorite Baltimore Ravens players play softball for a good cause! Last year's guests included Ben Grubbs, Lardarius Webb, Joe Flacco, Ray Rice, Michael Oher, and...
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Head into 2012 with confidence!
Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. and MLB veterans Bill Ripken & John Habyan will supply coaches with an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals that elevate great teams above the rest.
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2012 Week-Long Tournaments - Register Now
Next year's premium week-long tournament events are now open for registration at both of our amazing facilities. Choose from The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, SC and The Ripken Experience in Aberdeen, MD!
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Sports Diplomacy Trip to Japan
Check back for daily video updates from Japan! Cal will be in Japan Nov. 8-16 on behalf of the U.S. State Department. His mission: to spread goodwill through the game of baseball. Cal and former Oriole teammate, Brady Anderson, will run several baseball clinics with Japanese children as they traverse the country. Or visit the official blog for the trip!
Major Renovations at The Ripken Experience - Myrtle Beach, SC
Griffith Field, one of three 90-foot diamonds, to be overhauled during facility off-season
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The Ripken Experience Myrtle Beach, owned and operated by Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc., and Ripken Baseball, today announced a planned, one-million dollar renovation of an existing 90-foot baseball diamond, Griffith Field, during the facility’s off-season.
Griffith Field is one of the original 90-foot baseball diamonds constructed when the complex first opened in June of 2006. It has facilitated over 2,500 baseball games in six seasons and serves as the host field for all Opening Day Ceremonies during their annual 10-week summer tournament series.
“In order to keep our facility up to standards, we felt it was necessary to go ahead and completely renovate Griffith Field,” commented The Ripken Experience Myrtle Beach general manager, Bobby Holland. “By maintaining and updating our older fields, we will continue to provide participants with a safe, high-quality complex for all baseball and softball programming.”
Ripken Design, a Baltimore-based company that specializes in design services for baseball and multi-sport complexes, has been retained to oversee the project, along with FIELDS, a sports-turf company that specializes in artificial turf fields. The playing surface at Griffith Field will be updated with the latest version of AstroTurf® Game Day grass, and the sub-base and drainage system will receive a much need overhaul as well.
During 2011, The Ripken Experience Myrtle Beach hosted over 980 travel baseball teams, including 498 teams from 31 states and two international teams during the summer months. The announcement of the Griffith Field renovation comes one year after the complex added its eighth field, Ebbets Field, which allowed more space for teams to compete in Ripken Baseball tournaments in Myrtle Beach.
Relive the 2011 Cal Ripken World Series
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Ripken Baseball Partners with GameChanger
Award-winning app will provide scorekeeping and live updates for the Cal Ripken World Series. Available to your team today, for free.
GameChanger provides mobile apps and online tools that revolutionize baseball scorekeeping -- instantly calculating dozens of stats while delivering live play-by-play updates to fans.
During the game, a scorekeeper records all the action on the app’s touch-screen: tapping simple menus for balls, strikes and hits, and dragging / dropping defensive players and baserunners.
As each play is easily recorded, the app beams live pitch-by-pitch updates to the Internet, allowing parents, grandparents and other fans to follow the action on the web or their mobile phones.
Coaches and scorekeepers will never compute another stat. Over 130 are available instantly online after the game.
