NEW YORK (AP) -- Cal Ripken Jr. would be interesting in buying the Baltimore Orioles if Peter Angelos decides to sell the team.

Ripken Professional Baseball has owned the Class-A Aberdeen Ironbirds of the New York-Penn League since 2002 and the Class-A Augusta GreenJackets of the South Atlantic League since 2005.

There has been speculation that Ripken would want to own the Orioles and he was asked Wednesday about a possible purchase at the Hall of Fame news conference.

"I haven't been approached," he said. "I've thought about that, yes, and if an opportunity were to arise, if Mr. Angelos would want to sell the club, it would be an interesting thought process to go through."

Ripken spent 21 seasons playing for the Orioles before his retirement in 2001. He and Tony Gwynn were elected to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday in their first appearances on the ballot and will be inducted this July.

Angelos has owned the Orioles since 1993.

"Right now I'm very content in learning the business in the minor leagues and also developing kids' complexes and really growing the game of baseball at the grass-roots level," Ripken said. "But certainly if that ever became an opportunity, I certainly would look to be a part of that."


Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-o...ov=ap&type=lgns

This is essentially what I have heard from people who work for Ripken Baseball and is probably the company line regarding the purchase of the O's. I hope that there are some back room discussions that no one but Angelos, Cal, and their closest advisors are privy to so that it will happen sooner rather than later.

PUMA

I don't mean to be picky but can you please fix the typo in the subject? No offense, but it's hard to believe there are Oriole fans who don't know how to spell our now HOF icon's name still (especially when it's right there in the article).

Sorry, I was literally running on two hour's sleep in over forty eight hours with a migraine. If I could've spelt my own name correctly, I think I would've deserved a freakin medal.

No problem, thanks for posting the article. :)

No problem. I just feel like a major ass for letting that slip under my radar. I didn't even read the article. I just saw it on my main page on Yahoo news and posted it.

It's my mom's fault for making me search for something when my eyes couldn't even focus on the screen.

LoL.