The Untold Story of Cal Ripken Jr's Mum: A Strange 23 Hour Kidnapping - Aberdeen, MD

In the world of sports but especially in baseball, the name Ripken is royalty. Its late patriarch, Cal Ripken, Sr., spent 36 years with the Baltimore Orioles organization and his eldest son, Cal Ripkin Jr., earned the nickname "Iron Man" as the Major League Baseball record-holder for 2,632 consecutive games played from 1982 to 1998. Behind these legendary men’s success is the family’s matriarch, Violet Ripken. Her celebrity husband and son obviously attracted the spotlight for many years, but Violet became the center of the media attention in 2012 when she was abducted in Aberdeen, Maryland.