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Baltimore magazine|November 2020
Cal Ripken Jr. hits another milestone in Cherry Hill.
Corey McLaughlin
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CAL RIPKEN IS DOING a Zoom call with reporters when he disappears from the screen, leaving an empty chair swiveling in his wake. There’s no cause for alarm: Ripken was just briefly ranging to his left, same as he used to do at shortstop, to scoop something up. When he reemerges, there’s not a baseball in his hand, but one of those gold shovels you might see a politician or celebrity holding at a groundbreaking ceremony. “I just happened to have one of these laying around,” Ripken says with a laugh, and for close followers of the Ironman’s career, it’s not exactly a surprise.

This story is from the November 2020 edition of Baltimore magazine.

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