Television crews are set up outside the Aberdeen, Md. home of 74-year-old Vi Ripken, mother of legendary Orioles player Cal Ripken Jr., on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. A man abducted Vi Ripken at gunpoint outside her home and was found unharmed but shaken a
Television crews are set up outside the Aberdeen, Md. home of 74-year-old Vi Ripken, mother of legendary Orioles player Cal Ripken Jr., on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. A man abducted Vi Ripken at gunpoint outside her home and was found unharmed but shaken a day later in her car, police said Wednesday. Alex Dominguez, Associated Press
By Associated Press

ABERDEEN, Md. — Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother says a man who kidnapped her at gunpoint, tied her up and blindfolded her didn't seem to know she was in the famous baseball family.

Police say 74-year-old Vi Ripken was found bound in the back of her car Wednesday morning, about a day after she was kidnapped from her home outside Baltimore.

Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Trabert says investigators don't know the kidnapper's motive and there was no ransom demand. A suspect has not been found.

Ripken told a neighbor that the gunman didn't seem to know her son is the Hall of Fame infielder Cal Ripken Jr.

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The neighbor says the abductor just wanted money and her car.

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