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ripken has made donations to many various charitable causes, including donations supporting research on lou gehrig's disease. after he broke gehrig's record, the orioles, along with private donors, created the cal ripken/lou gehrig fund for neuromuscular research at johns hopkins university. along with his brother billy, he formed the cal ripken sr., foundation in 2001 to give underprivileged children the opportunity to attend baseball camps around the country and learn the game. the foundation is a branch of ripken baseball. in addition to controlling these camps and ripken's minor league teams, ripken baseball operates for-profit camps and designs ballfields for youth, college, and professional teams. he gives speeches about his time in baseball and some of the lessons he has learned. between 2001 and 2004, inclusive, ripken served as commissioner of the white house tee ball initiative of president george w. bush, in which capacity he worked to promote the value of teamwork amongst players and volunteership amongst the public and helped to teach tee ball fundamentals to teams of children at the white house.
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in addition to his writing, ripken himself has been the subject of several books. in 1995, harvey rosenfeld released a biography on him entitled "iron man: the cal ripken jr., story". later, in 2007, jeff seidel released a biography on him entitled, "iron man: cal ripken jr., a tribute". a children's biography of ripken, "cal ripken jr., quiet hero" was published in 1993 by lois nicholson. in addition, ripken has been the subject of scholarly publications analyzing the impact of his career.





























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