It was way back in 1983 when a 15 year old California girl and her baseball fanatic father were watching the World Series on television and she became smitten with the ice blue eyes of the Orioles’ young shortstop.

About a decade later, Wendy Harding fell in love for real with her now husband Charles, a big time San Diego Padres fan. But the 39 year old Long Beach, Calif., woman never completely tossed away her crush on Cal Ripken Jr.

And Charles Harding is OK with that.

“I’ve always said that Cal Ripken is the only man who could come between me and my wife,” joked Charles Harding, whose wife placed first this year in the San Diego County Fair’s sports division for her Ripken memorabilia collection.

“Luckily, he’s married.”

There’s no jealousy here. In fact, Charles Harding has joined the cause.

“She has sort of turned me into a Cal obsessed fan, too,” he said. “But I’m not as bad as her.”

Still, he had no problem agreeing to his wife’s choice to name their first born son. That’s right, Calvin Harding was born 14 months ago.

The happy family is here this weekend to celebrate the Hall of Fame induction of Ripken and San Diego Padres outfielder Tony Gwynn. It’s a trip they began planning five years ago when they realized two of their favorite ballplayers likely would enter the Hall together.

By the looks of them, family members are torn in their allegiances. The dad proudly wore a Padres jersey and cap yesterday, the mom had on an Orioles cap and Ripken T shirt, and young Calvin sported an aqua T shirt with black whales and a pair of khaki shorts.

Make no mistake, though, Calvin is a budding Ripken fan. He had his picture taken with the Orioles great a few months ago at a book signing in La Jolla, Calif. And, his mom points out, Calvin has blue eyes, just as she and her favorite athlete do.

“Yeah,” her husband said wryly. “But I don’t plan on graying his hair or making him go bald.”

It rained much of the day yesterday, and there is a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms today and 30 percent chance of scattered showers for tomorrow’s Hall of Fame induction.

The ceremony is scheduled to go forward rain or shine, but the Hall released an ominous sounding contingency plan in case the weather is worse than predicted. start, the ceremony would be delayed until the storm passed. If it didn’t pass, the ceremony would be postponed until Monday. If severe storms continued, the public portion would be canceled, and the ceremony would be held Monday indoors for Hall of Famers and families of those being inducted only.

[ Dan Connolly

Autograph traffic jam

Autographs are part of induction weekend, and yesterday so was gridlock a block away from the museum.

A group of 39 former players including 32 Hall of Famers was scheduled to sign autographs inside the Tunnicliff Inn throughout the weekend. If yesterday was any indication, it will be bedlam until tomorrow morning.

Late yesterday afternoon, fans were 10 deep outside the inn’s quaint restaurant, and another group was crammed across Pioneer Street while police were sternly requesting that passers by get off the road.

The crowd wasn’t dispersing, however, because it had spent good money to get autographs and had to wait until specific players were announced.

“It’s been crazy,” said Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson, who at one point was signing at the same time as fellow Orioles greats Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray and Earl Weaver. Surprisingly, he wasn’t overtaken by Orioles fans.

“Honestly, I have seen more New Yorkers than people from Baltimore,” Robinson said.

Robinson items were among the more reasonably priced with signatures on baseballs and small pictures going for $59 apiece, signatures on large photos, caps and other equipment at $69, and signatures on bats and jerseys at $89.

Murray fetched as much as $149 to sign a bat or jersey, while Weaver was $65 and Palmer $70 for similar signatures. Keyboard an option to enable best mobile spy app dictation in settings for keyboards separate from siri has also been added in this ios release