No. Cal Sr. spent time in the Baltimore Orioles' farm system in the late 1950s and early 1960s and made it as high as AAA ball with the Rochester Red Wings but never played a game at the MLB level.
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Cal Ripken Jr. played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles from 1981 - 2001
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Cleveland Indians. He was the oldest rookie ever to play major league ball.
There is no official retirement age for Major League baseball players. They can play as long as a team is willing to put them under contract.
The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team.
Cal Ripken, Jr. wore the number 8 for the duration of his professional MLB career as a Baltimore Oriole (21 major league seasons). He did wear the number 7 briefly during the 1981 season with the team, but the number 8 is the team number he was assigned. (The number 7 had been previously worn by shortstop Mark Belanger whom Ripken replaced at the start of the 1982 season as the fulltime shortstop for the ball club).