Ripken the Bat Dog, the endlessly eager black Labrador who charmed fans at Durham Bulls and N.C. State University football games, has unexpectedly died.
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The O’Donnell family who trained Ripken announced his death Friday due to complications from an undiagnosed medical condition. He was 8 — his namesake’s number for the Baltimore Orioles…