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4 hours ago · Orlando Cepeda was born in Ponce, P.R., on Sept. 17, 1937. His father, though a baseball hero in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean, was a victim of the major leagues’ color barrier.
Orlando Manuel Cepeda Pennes (Spanish pronunciation: [oɾˈlando seˈpeða]; September 17, 1937 – June 28, 2024), nicknamed "the Baby Bull" and "Peruchin", was a Puerto Rican first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for six teams from 1958 to 1974, primarily the San Francisco Giants.
13 hours ago · Orlando Manuel Cepeda Pennes was born on Sept. 17, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His father, Pedro, nicknamed Perucho, gained renown as a professional ballplayer in a Puerto Rican league. Inevitably drawn to baseball, the younger Cepeda joined the Giants organization as one of the many Latin American players discovered by famed scout Alex Pompez.
2 hours ago · Cepeda finished with a career .297 batting average, 379 home runs and 1,365 RBI’s. Cepeda made his major league debut with the Giants in 1958 – the year they moved from New York to San Francisco.
10 hours ago · MLB mourns the passing of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda at the age of 86. Known as "Cha-Cha" and "The Baby Bull," Cepeda slugged 379 home runs, batted .297, and made 11 All-Star teams over 17 seasons.
8 hours ago · FILE - St. Louis Cardinals’ Orlando Cepeda, left, and Boston Red Sox’s Carl Yastrzemski pose for a photo in March 1968 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Cepeda, the slugging first baseman nicknamed “Baby Bull” who became a Hall of Famer among the early Puerto Ricans to star in the major leagues, has died. He was 86.
9 hours ago · Orlando Cepeda, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the 1950s and 1960s, who played in three World Series but whose path to the Hall of Fame was slowed by a drug conviction after his ...
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