Ripken’s Mother is Safe

Cal Ripken Jr’s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after she said she was kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier at her home outside Baltimore and driven around blindfolded by her abductor, police and neighbors said. This means Cal’s record of getting his Mom back safe from kidnappers is also safe at one.

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