Byline: Combined wire services
JUPITER, Fla. -- Cal Ripken was talking to reporters Friday when he stopped for a moment, reached behind him and produced a half-inch shard of wood.
``Tough bench,'' he said, eyeing the splinter he yanked from the seat of his pants.
Ripken, who doesn't like sitting in the dugout under any circumstances, hopes to make his spring training debut today when the Baltimore Orioles face the Los Angeles Dodgers at Fort Lauderdale Stadium.
Ripken, 40, reported to spring training with a hairline fracture in his right rib cage and has been working for weeks to get ready to play. An hour before Friday's road game …
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