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Cal Ripken Jr., the former Baltimore Orioles star who was a Gold Glove-winning shortstop, is slated to give a speech on a youth crime-prevention effort at a national gathering of attorneys general next week at The Westin in Providence.

At 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a news release from Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's office today.

A question-and-answer session will follow Ripken's speech.

Afterward, Ripken is scheduled to go to Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium, arriving at 12:15 p.m., where he will be joined by attorneys general, Pawtucket Red Sox management, Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle, law enforcement, members of the Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club’s RBI League, and Rhode Island Interscholastic League players.

In doing so, Ripken will return to the stadium where he played in the longest game in professional baseball history, the Triple-A International League’s Rochester Red Wings in the game against the PawSox that began on April 18, 1981, and continued into the next day, Easter morning, before being suspended at the end of the 32nd inning, at 4:09 a.m.

Mike Moore, former Mississippi attorney general and a board member of the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, will introduce Ripken at The Westin.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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