Orioles Fan Comes Within Eight Tickets of Completing Ripken Streak Collection
A lifelong Orioles fan, Rick Taylor, has spent 28 years meticulously collecting tickets from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.'s "Iron Man" streak, which encompassed 2,632 consecutive games. After decades of searching, Taylor is now just eight tickets away from…
Biloxi Gulfport, MS, October 25, 2026 —
Rick Taylor, a lifelong Baltimore Orioles fan, is eight tickets short of completing a collection tied to Cal Ripken Jr.’s record-setting streak of 2,632 consecutive games.
Taylor has spent 28 years collecting tickets from games in the streak, according to the information provided about the collection. The effort has brought him close to assembling a ticket from every game, though the eight remaining tickets mean the collection is not yet complete.
The collection is described as one of the most impressive baseball ticket collections ever assembled, a characterization attributed to experts. The information provided does not identify those experts or explain how they assessed the collection.
Ripken’s “Iron Man” streak is the focus of Taylor’s pursuit. The available details do not specify the dates of the streak, the games represented by the missing tickets, or how Taylor has searched for them. They also do not provide information about the collection’s monetary value, where it is kept, or whether Taylor expects to obtain the remaining tickets.
The account presents the pursuit as a decades-long collecting effort nearing its goal, while leaving several details about the collection and its progress unspecified. Taylor’s next steps and any timeline for completing the set were not provided.
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