Orlando Cepeda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Puerto Rican baseball player
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1937
Place of Birth: Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
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About Orlando Cepeda
- Orlando Manuel "Peruchin" Cepeda Pennes (Spanish pronunciation: [o?'lando se'peða]; born September 17, 1937) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball first baseman and a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
- The 1958 National League Rookie of the Year, Cepeda was voted the National League Most Valuable Player in 1967, the year his team, the St.
- Louis Cardinals, won the World Series.
- Overall, he appeared in three World Series and was the first winner of the American League's Outstanding Designated Hitter Award in 1973.
- He batted .300 or better 9 times in the 14 seasons he appeared in over 100 games, much of it played in what is now called the "Second Deadball Era."Cepeda was born to a poor family.
- His father, Pedro "Perucho" Cepeda, was also a baseball player in Puerto Rico, which influenced Cepeda's interest in the sport from a young age.
- His first contact with professional baseball was as a bat boy for the Santurce Crabbers of Puerto Rico.
- Pedro Zorilla, the team's owner, persuaded Cepeda's family to let him attend a New York Giants tryout.
- He played for several Minor League Baseball teams before attracting the interest of the Giants, who had just moved to San Francisco. During a 17-year career, he played with the San Francisco Giants (1958–1966), St.
- Louis Cardinals (1966–1968), Atlanta Braves (1969–1972), Oakland Athletics (1972), Boston Red Sox (1973), and Kansas City Royals (1974).
- Cepeda was selected to play in seven Major League Baseball All-Star Games during his career, becoming the first player from Puerto Rico to start one.
- In 1978, Cepeda was sentenced to five years in prison on drug possession charges, of which he served ten months in prison and the rest on probation.
- In 1987, Cepeda was contracted by the San Francisco Giants to work as a scout and "goodwill ambassador." In 1999, Cepeda was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
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